Daniela Hodrová

Daniela Hodrová was a Czech writer and literary scholar.

Biography

Hodrová was born in Prague on 5 July 1946. She did postgraduate studies in French and comparative literature. In 1972–75, she worked as an editor of Slavonic literature in the Odeon publishing house. From 1975, she worked at the Institute of Czech Literature of the Academy of Sciences, where she was a Senior Researcher.
Her novels typically incorporate topics from her work as a literary scholar, "especially the classification of novels into roman-realité and the roman-invention, or the pioneering theory about the meaning and forms of the initiation storyline in a work of literature." She is perhaps best known for a trilogy called Trýznivé město, they are distinctive "Prague novels, which aim to convey emblematically the genius loci of this central European city, of whose history Hodrová highlights the tragic features."
Some of her works have been translated into English, such as Prague, I See a City... and the trilogy City of Torment, both published by Jantar Publishing.
Hodrová died on 30 August 2024, at the age of 78.