ZUZANA ŘÍHOVÁ (T.G.Masaryk Czech School) /22.10.2026 Chicago *ILLINOIS*

AN EVENING WITH AUTHOR ZUZANA ŘÍHOVÁ

You are warmly invited to join us for a conversation with novelist and literary scholar Zuzana Říhová.
We’ll talk about the strange and exciting world of Czech modernism, her fiction, and what happens when a writer is also a scholar.

Thursday, October 22, 2026
7:00 PM
T. G. Masaryk Czech School, 5701 W 22nd Place, Cicero, IL 60804
RSVP: info@czechschoolchicago.org or 708-656-9810
Free and open to all.

A few copies of Zuzana Říhová’s novel Cestou špendlíků nebo jehel (Playing Wolf) in the original Czech will be available for purchase at the event. The English translation, Playing Wolf, published in 2025 and translated by acclaimed literary translator Alex Zucker, is available for purchase here: https://books.catapult.co/books/playing-wolf/

AUTHOR’S BIO
Zuzana Říhová is a Czech novelist and literary scholar. Her novel Playing Wolf was shortlisted for the top Czech fiction prize in 2022 and has been translated into several languages.
She is also an Associate Professor of Czech and Comparative Literature and Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at Anglo-American University in Prague. She has led Czech studies at Oxford and been a visiting professor at Columbia University. Her books explore the Czech avant-garde and modernism, a bold and inventive literary world that flourished in Czechoslovakia between the wars. Her latest book, Archaeology of Modernism, looks at how Czech and Anglo-American writers echoed one another in the 1940s. It will be published by Karolinum later this year.