Gabriela Preissová

Source: Czech Centres / FDULS

Writer and playwright, author of theater plays set in the Slovácko region of Moravia which present a mirror for the morality of that time.

Source: Czech Centres / FDULS

Writer and playwright, author of theater plays set in the Slovácko region of Moravia which present a mirror for the morality of that time. Her principal works include the play Jenůfa, which was later set to music by the world-famous composer Leoš Janáček.

The illustrated project Czech Heroines was inspired by the centenary of voting rights for Czech women and the 200th anniversary of the birth of the prominent Czech writer Božena Němcová. It is a joint project by the Czech Centres, the Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia and Radio Prague International.