Kateřina Tučková is a novelist, playwright, art historian and curator. Her Magnesia Litera-winning novels Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch (2009), about the Brno Death March, and Žítkovské bohyně (2012), about women healers from the White Carpathian region, earned her also the Prize for Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (2017). She also writes for the theatre and several of her novels have been adapted for the stage by theatres across the Czech Republic. In 2022 she published Bílá Voda, awarded the State Prize for Literature and named Book of the Year by Deník N and Lidové noviny. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages.