Sylvie Richterová
Illustration — Sylvie Richterová in 2016 Sylvie Richterová (born 20 August 1945) is a Czech educator and writer living in Italy. In 1971, she moved to Italy, where she lectured in Czech and was a researcher at the Institute of Slavonic Philology. She went on to lecture on Czech language and literature in Padua and Viterbo.
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Sylvie Richterová
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- Born
- 1945 · Brno.
- Nationality
- Czech Republic
- Occupation
- writer · poet · essayist · translator · literary historian · literary theorist · novelist · literary critic
- Fields
- Czech studies · essay · literature · translation
- Education
- Charles University
- Honours
- City of Brno Award
- Languages
- Czech · Italian
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Illustration — Sylvie Richterová in 2016 Sylvie Richterová (born 20 August 1945) is a Czech educator and writer living in Italy. In 1971, she moved to Italy, where she lectured in Czech and was a researcher at the Institute of Slavonic Philology. She went on to lecture on Czech language and literature in Padua and Viterbo.
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Source: • Místopis (Topography), short stories (1981) • Slova a ticho (Words and silence), essays (1986) • Ticho a smích (Silence and laughter), essays (1997) • Čas věčnost [Time Eternity], poems (2003) • Místo domova [In Place of Home], essays (2004) • "Každá věc ať dospěje na své místo" (– The Second Life of Jan Lazar), novel (2014) • "Eseje o české literatuře" (Essays on Czech literature) 2016 • "Tajné ohně" (Secret fires) poems (2020)
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Her first book Návraty a jiné ztráty (Returns and other losses), a collection of short stories, was written in Italy and was published by 68 Publishers in 1978. It was published in French as Retours et autres pertes in 1992. Richterová has also translated works by Czech writers into Italian.
Sylvie Richterová studied at Charles University. The recorded working language is Czech and Italian. The field of work recorded is Czech studies, essay and literature. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome. Employment is recorded with Sapienza University of Rome. Distinctions recorded are City of Brno Award.
• 2017 Tom Stoppard Prize
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- 1.Premio 1994.
- 2.Cita web https://www.jcu.cz/o-univerzite/aktuality/jihoceska-univerzita-udeli-cestny-doktorat-svetove-uznavane-predstavitelce-soucasne-bohemistiky-prof-phdr-sylvii-richterove Laurea honoris causa, 2009
- 3.Milan Kundera, 1986, p. 5-7.
- 4.Pavel Janoušek, Sylvie Richterová, Každá věc ať dospěje na své místo, in Tvar, 26, 2015, n. 3, p. 2.
- 5.Nathalie Zanello, 1999, p. 107-125
- 6.L’Atelier du roman, 2000, p. 135-140
- 7.Horký P, 2014, 7(29), pp. 9-10.
- 8.Massimo Rizzante, La scrittrice kafkiana che ci racconta l'esilio, in: La Repubblica, 10 dicembre 2018, p. 32.
- 9.Adam Borzič, Velká pouť za smyslem české literatury, in: Tvar, 2016, 8, pp. 3, 19.
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