Translator. She studied Romance and Slavonic Studies and worked for several years an editor at several publishing houses. She is now a freelance translator and literary editor. She translates from Czech, French and Italian. She has translated works by the following authors from Czech: Květa Legátová, Miloš Urban, Vlastimil Vondruška, Stanislav Komárek and currently Markéta Pilátová. She lives in Munich.