Institut Ramon LLull

Monika Zgustová at the 2018 Toronto International Festival of Authors (IFOA)

Literature.  Toronto, 23/10/2018

Meet, hear and learn from the world’s leading writers and thought-leaders at the 39th edition of the Festival. As Canada’s oldest and largest celebration of words and ideas, the Toronto International Festival of Authors empowers writers and transforms the way curious readers interact with the written word 365 days a year.




Monika Zgustová is an award-winning author whose literary works have been published in 10 languages. She was born in Prague. She studied comparative literature at the universities of Chicago and Illinois. She lives in Barcelona and writes for El Pais, The Nation and other magazines. 

Monika Zgustová has published nine books, including novels, short stories, a play, and a biography. Her novel The Silent Woman (2005, published in English by Feminist Press in 2014) was one of two runners-up for the National Award for the Novel, given by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Zgustová has also received the Ciutat de Barcelona and the Mercè Rodoreda awards in Spain, and the Gratias Agist Prize given by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague. Her other novel translated into English is Goya's Glass (Feminist Press, 2012). As a translator of Czech and Russian literature—including Havel, Kundera, Hrabal, Hasek, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, and Babel—Zgustová is credited with bringing major 20th-century writers into Spanish and Catalan.

 

IFOA EVENTS MONIKA ZGUSTOVÁ WILL BE INVOLVED IN:

 

EUNIC Reading & Reception

October 21 2018 - 7:00 PM

With the European Union National Institutes for Culture, we’ll be spotlighting writers from EU countries who will read short excerpts from their work in their own languages.

 

Festival Pop-up at Union Station

October 22 2018 - 3:00 to 5:00 PM

 

Panel: Cristina Ali Farah, Ivana Bodrozic & Monika Zgustová

October 23 2018 - 8:00 PM

Cristina Ali Farah, Ivana Bodrozic and Monika Zgustová discuss the themes of identity and political strife as experienced by their female protagonists.

 

IFOA 2018, Toronto

October 12-28, 2018

EVENTS WITH MONIKA ZGUSTOVÁ:

October 21 at 7:00 PM

October 22 at 3:00 PM

October 23 at 8:00 PM 

 

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