Playing Wolf

ZUZANA ŘÍHOVÁ studied Czech Language and Literature and Comparative Literature at the Charles University in Prague. She has been working at the Institute of Czech Literature since 2007 and was Head of Czech Studies at the University of Oxford from 2014–2017. Říhová, who has a lifelong interest in Czech avantgarde literature, has published a collection of poetry, I’ll Let You in My House (Pustím si tě do domu , 2016), and a novella, Little Eve (Evička, 2018), which was named as one of the Books of the Year in 2018 by a Czech literary web magazine.

ALEX ZUCKER’s translations include novels by Magdaléna Platzová, Jáchym Topol, Bianca Bellová, Petra Hůlová, and Tomáš Zmeškal. He has also Englished plays, subtitles, young adult and children’s books, poems, philosophy, art history, and an opera.