Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:57:35 +0200https://english.radio.cz/a-cab-both-sides-road-iva-pekarkovas-london-8582221© 2026 Radio Prague International One of the things I find most refreshing about Iva Pekárková’s writing is that it is so untypical. Her books have taken us to New York, Nigeria, and now London and Senegal, breaking the stereotype of Czech literature as inward-looking and local. You may remember Iva talking in a past edition of this programme about her autobiographical novel “Dej mi ty prachy”, published in English as “Gimme the Money”, inspired by her experiences as a New York cab driver. After New York, Iva spent several years back in Prague and she also travelled widely in Africa, but for the last four years she has been living in London with her Nigerian partner Kenny. It was there that she wrote her two most recent books, the novel “Sloni v soumraku” (Elephants in the Dusk) and a collection compiled from her popular London blog, published under the untranslatable title “Jaxi taksikařím”. I caught up with Iva during a brief visit to Prague. In a café round the corner from the radio, she told me about her life in London, the differences between the world of the book and the blog, and her plans to complete an intriguing literary trilogy. But first she spoke of her love for living in different places. 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/a-cab-both-sides-road-iva-pekarkovas-london-8582221 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9