Ordination

Petra Dvořáková

(born. 1977) studied philosophy at Masaryk University in Brno. She came to the attention of readers with her book of interviews, Proměněné sny (Transformed Dreams), for which she received the Magnesia Litera Award. Her other titles, I Am Hungry and Networks, have also gained attention. Stories of (in)self-confidence. The children's book Julie Between the Words was awarded the Golden Ribbon and the Teachers' Prize in the SUK poll. For children's readers she also wrote the books Flouk and Líla and Everyone has his line. Her novel Dědina was one of the best-selling and most highly praised titles of Czech prose, and its audiobook form became the absolute winner of the Audiobook of the Year 2019. She confirmed her position as a bestselling author with her novel The Surgeon and her novel Vrány, for which she won the Book of the Year 2020 award in the category of artistic prose. She has also published a book, The Garden (2022), and a novel, The Planes (2023), also bestsellers. In 2024, she published a book interview with Professor Jan Starý I Believed It Must Go a Better Way and a year later the novel Návrat (Return). To date, over 150,000 copies of the author's books have been sold, translated into many languages and have also become bestsellers in Poland.