Alena Mornštajnová Author

Alena Mornštajnová is one of the Czech Republic’s most widely read contemporary novelists. Her debut novel Blind Map was nominated for the Czech Book Prize. Her subsequent works include The Little Hotel, Hana, and The Silent Years. Hana, her most acclaimed novel, has been translated into numerous languages and was longlisted for the 2021 EBRD Literature Prize. Alžběta Belánová earned her English degree with high honors from Rutgers University and was awarded the Schaeffer Fellowship in Literary Translation at the University of California, Irvine. Her translations have appeared in Asymptote, B O D Y, and in The Book of Prague. She is the translator of Lidmila Kábrtová’s short story collection Places in the Dark, also published by Seagull Books.