Kateřina Tučková
Born in 1980
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Kateřina Tučková is a Czech author and art curator born in 1980.
She studied art history and Czech language at Masaryk University in Brno.
Tučková made her literary debut with the novella "Montespaniáda" in 2006.
Her novel "The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch" (2009) won the Magnesia Litera Readers' Choice Award and was nominated for several other prestigious Czech literary prizes.
She has also written non-fiction works on Czech visual arts and a fictionalized biography of painter Kamil Lhoták.
Tučková's work often blends historical research with fiction, exploring themes of Czech history and culture.
