October 21, 2024: Life after Kafka: A Conversation with Magdaléna Platzová and Alex Zucker

The writer Magdalena Platzová and her translator, Alex Zucker, will discuss Life after Kafka, a widely acclaimed novel based on the letters between Franz Kafka and Felice Bauer, which was translated into many languages, including English.

Monday, October 21, 2024, from 5:30 to 7pm
Kresge Room (114), Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA, 02138

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Magdaléna Platzová is the author of nine books, including three novels published in English: Aaron’s Leap, a Lidové Noviny Book of the Year Award finalist; The Attempt, longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and a Czech Book Award finalist; and Life After Kafka, a Magnesia Litera award finalist. She grew up in the Czech Republic, studied in the United States and England, and now resides in France.

Award-winning translator Alex Zucker has translated novels by Magdaléna Platzová, Jáchym Topol, Bianca Bellová, Petra Hůlová, Tomáš Zmeškal, and other Czech writers, as well as numerous stories, plays, subtitles, young adult and children’s books, song lyrics, reportages, essays, poems, philosophy, art history, and an opera.