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Vera Linhartova (born March 22, 1938) is a Czech writer and art historian.
She was born in Brno and studied art history at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University and aesthetics at Charles University in Prague. She worked in the art gallery at Hluboka Castle. From 1962 to 1965, she was involved with the surrealist group in Prague and also contributed to the young writers' journal Tvar. In 1968, Linhartova moved to Paris; since 1969, she has been writing in French. She studied Japanese in Paris and from 1989 to 1990, she lived in Tokyo on a research grant.
She edited and translated Dada et Surrealisme au Japon (1987).
Linhartova received the Jaroslav Seifert Prize in 1998. In 2010, she received the F. X. Salda Award and the Tom Stoppard prize for her collection of essays Soustredne kruhy (Collected Circles).