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Kateřina Tučková (born 31 October 1980) is a Czech novelist and curator. She is best known as the author of Žítkovské bohyně, a Czech bestseller.

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Life

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Tučková was born in Brno and spent her childhood in the South Moravian village of Moutnice. She moved with her mother to Kuřim when she was a teenager. Tučková studied at Gymnázium Kapitána Jaroše (Captain Jaroš’s Gymnasium) and got an academic degree in the field of history of art, Czech language, and Czech literature at The Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. In 2004, she founded The ARSkontakt project, an annual exposition of artworks of her generation. As a curator, Tučková worked in Brno in a non-commercial gallery focused on young art; In 2014 she graduated from The Institute of Art History at Charles University in Prague. Since 2010 she has worked as a curator in Exhibition hall Chrudim.

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In 2015, Kateřina Tučková participated in the organization of the Year of Reconciliation, during which the city of Brno, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, for the first time officially apologized for the inhumane expulsion of German speaking population from Brno. During this expulsion in 1945 many women, children and old people died. This initiative, which was inspired besides other things, by her novel The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch (Host, Brno 2009), also praised the German President Joachim Gauck in his speech on the Day of deportees. Since 2016, she has been the program director of the multi-genre festival Meeting Brno, which focuses on the confrontation of current and historical Central European topics and their artistic conception.

Curator career

Tučková curates exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad.

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  • Transfer – exhibition held in the White BOX Gallery, Munich (2007) and Bohemian National Hall New York City (2008)
  • Our House Is Your House – exhibition held in Geh8 Gallery, Dresden (2010).

    • Publications

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  • Nová trpělivost: Hranice ustupují (2007), work focused on contemporary Czech art
  • Slovem i obrazem (2008), work focused on contemporary Czech art
  • Normální malba (2009), works focused on contemporary Czech art
  • Věra Sládková, prozaické dílo – Publication focused on prosaic work of Věra Sládková.
  • Montespiáda (in English, Montespan Contest) published in 2006. is about the relationship of a young female student with an older man. The book did not reach wider attention. It is named after Madame de Montespan, who was maîtresse-en-titre of France Louis XIV.
  • Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch (Host, 2009),(in English The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch) is about the expulsion of Sudeten Germans and Brno death march. It contains an emotional description of post-war anti-German terror. The main character, Gerta Shnirch, mother of an infant, is forced to march from Brno to Pohořelice. The novel was awarded by Magnesia Litera and nominated to Cena Jiřího Ortena.
  • Žítkovské bohyně (Host, 2012),(in English The Goddesses of Žítková)was published in March 2012 and became the 6th best sold fiction title in the Czech Republic for 2012 (for 21 weeks was book listed among the first 10 best sold titles). The paperback edition was published in February, 2013. It focuses on female natural healers from Bílé Karpaty mountain range who are traditionally called „bohyně“ (goddesses). Tučková narrates their complicated history because persecutions by the inquisition in the 17th century, and the later Priests’ Initiative in the 19th century were finally suppressed by communist government. The book is not a historical study; it manifests Tučková’s sympathy with goddesses’ activities. The bestseller was reviewed by mass media and awarded the Josef Škvorecký Award, The Czech Book Reader’s Award and Magnesia Litera - Reader's Prize. More than 110.000 copies were sold and it is translated into 13 languages. The theatre adaptation premiered in March 2014 (Městské divadlo Zlín) with huge success. Film rights are sold as well.
  • Fabrika (Host, 2014), the story of the textile barons from Moravian Manchester. The story accompanied the exibithion project Brno-Moravian Mancherster in Moravian Gallery in Brno.

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    References

    Kateřina Tučková Wikipedia
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