Jana Juráňová cofounded the feminist educational
and publication project ASPEKT, where she remains a coordinator and
editor. She has translated over twenty books from English,
including Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf, Gender Trouble by Judith
Butler, and Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman. She is a
playwright and author of children's books and literary fiction. Her
novel Nani?ìhodnica (The Wretch) was published in 2020. She has
been nominated three times for Slovakia's most prestigious literary
award, Anasoft Litera. For My Seven Lives both authors were awarded
the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize in Prague. In 2018 Juráňová received a
state prize for her literary activities and the promotion of human
rights and democracy from the president of the Slovak Republic.
Agneša Kalinová (1924-2014) was a journalist and
translator. Born into a Jewish family in Pre?íov in eastern
Slovakia, she lost most of her extended family in the Holocaust
while she survived by hiding in a convent in Budapest. After the
war she embarked on a career as journalist and film critic, serving
for many years as an editor with the cultural and political weekly
Kult??rny ?¥ivot. As supporters of the Prague Spring, Agneša and
her husband lost their jobs following the Soviet-led invasion of
Czechoslovakia and were imprisoned in 1972. She later immigrated
with her husband and daughter to West Germany, where she became a
political commentator for Radio Free Europe. She died in Munich a
few weeks after her ninetieth birthday.
"This book is not a conventional autobiography, but takes the form – commonly used in Central Europe – of a transcribed dialogue between the subject and a friendly interlocutor [...] As impressive as Kalinová’s recall of names and events is her lack of bitterness. Refusing to let herself be defined by the loss of family in the Holocaust and of her career in middle age, she says: “I’ve always regarded life as a kind of adventure: let’s see what it throws at me and how things will pan out.”" - Times Literary Supplement
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