Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:28:08 +0200https://english.radio.cz/irena-eliasova-a-song-raise-your-spirits-8542854© 2026 Radio Prague International The poet, playwright and novelist Irena Eliášová spent her early childhood in a Romany village in south-western Slovakia. The memory of this time has become the defining experience in her writing. But Irena does not write just about the lost world of her childhood in the 1950s and 60s. She has also written powerfully and poignantly about the life of Roma in the Czech Republic today. Yet even when she writes about the present, her work is permeated with a sense of family and community that also draws us back to an older world of Roma tradition. David Vaughan meets one of the Czech Republic’s foremost Romany writers. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/eliasova_irena.jpg?timestamp=1591153981 https://english.radio.cz/irena-eliasova-a-song-raise-your-spirits-8542854 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9