Prose writer and curator Kateřina Tučková was born in 1980. A graduate in History of Art and Czech of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, Brno; currently a postgraduate student at the Institute of Art History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague; author of many publications in the field of art history and a monograph on the writer Věra Sládková.
Her debut work of prose is the novella Montespaniáda / Montespaniade (Větrné mlýny, 2006); her short story Poslední večer / The Last Evening is included in She Who Write (Artes Liberales, 2008), a reader of contemporary short stories by Czech women.
Extract from novel The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch – Prologue (download PDF)
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