Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:37:17 +0200https://english.radio.cz/iva-pekarkova-a-czech-writer-home-both-sides-atlantic-8073468© 2026 Radio Prague International Welcome to "Czech Books", our new fortnightly series devoted to Czech writing and writers. In a series of interviews over the next few weeks the writer and musician Pavla Jonssonova, well known from the popular band Zuby Nehty, will be talking to a number of Czechs writing today. She starts with one of the most interesting contemporary Czech novelists, Iva Pekarkova, whose books are filled with energy, eroticism and heroines who are not afraid to take their fate into their own hands. Her first novel appeared in English as "Truck Stop Rainbows" in 1992, and is about a young woman who seeks freedom on the open road in the unlikely setting of communist Czechoslovakia. And Gin, the heroine of her more recent novel "Gimme the Money" is just as fearless, in a story inspired by the author's own experiences as a New York cab driver in the 1990s. Readers in English will soon have the chance to get to know another Czech heroine or anti-heroine, when Iva's novel "The Scars" appears later this year. The action heroine is an untypical feature of Czech writing, and this was what interested Pavla Jonssonova, when she caught up with Iva a few days ago in a Prague café. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 https://english.radio.cz/iva-pekarkova-a-czech-writer-home-both-sides-atlantic-8073468 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9