Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:33:35 +0200https://english.radio.cz/iva-pekarkova-hitchhiking-hermaphrodites-and-star-crossed-love-across-closed-8148958© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalPrague-born novelist, travel writer and journalist/blogger Iva Pekárková has lived abroad for the better part of twenty-five years, having first defected to Austria in 1985 and then settled in New York before eventually putting down roots in London after stints back home in the Czech Republic, and extensive travels in Asia and Africa. In town for the Prague Writer’s Festival, we spoke about the influence of movement on her early work – from hitchhiking under communism and driving taxis ‘on both sides of the road’ – and her latest book, about a disabled Czech women married to a Pakistani, kept apart by the powers that be.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/pekarkova_iva_0.jpg?timestamp=1590436527 https://english.radio.cz/iva-pekarkova-hitchhiking-hermaphrodites-and-star-crossed-love-across-closed-8148958 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9