Tereza Boučková (CZE)

Writer, screenwriter, and publicist

 

Tereza is a Czech novelist. Since the late 1980s, she has written a number of short stories and feuilletons, several plays, and screenplays.

 

She is the daughter of Pavel Kohout, a Czech novelist, playwright, and poet. After her graduation, Tereza opposed the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia, and instead of going to university, she worked as a cleaner, mail carrier, janitor, and packager of vinyl records. She was educated privately, learnt English and attended lectures at so-called home universities. In 1990, she received the Jiří Orten Prize for a collection of stories. Since 2001, she has been a member of the Czech Centre of the International PEN Club.
Together with her husband Jiří, they adopted two sons before their third son was born. The experience of adopting Roma children was the main inspiration for Tereza to write the script for the film Smradi (Bastards), which premiered in 2002 and was nominated for the Czech Lion film award.
In November 2016, Tereza Boučková was granted the status of a participant in the resistance against communism for participating in so-called apartment theatres that were brutally suppressed by the communist state police.

Indiánský běh životem

Luxor stage
22. 7. 2023 16:30 - 17:30