Monika Zgustova
(Prague, 1957) She has lived in Barcelona since the 1980s. A writer and journalist, she contributes to El País, among other national and international newspapers. She is also a prominent translator from Czech and Russian of authors such as Bohumil Hrabal, Jaroslav Hašek, Václav Havel, Milan Kundera, Anna Akhmátova and Marina Tsvetáieva. Some of her books are ‘Las rosas de Stalin’ (2016), ‘Vestidas para un baile en la nieve’ (Premio Cálamo, 2017)), ‘La intrusa’ (2018), ‘Un revólver para salir de noche’ (2019), ‘Nos veíamos mejor en la oscuridad’ (2022); all of them, published by Galaxia Gutenberg. In 2024, she published ‘Yo soy Milena de Praga’ with the same publisher. She is also the author of two plays; her work has been translated into several languages.