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Ivana Mys ková (born, 1981) ranks among the more talented Czech prose writers of her generation. She graduated in creative writing and media communication from the Literary Academy in Prague. She worked as a radio cultural editor and now is a magazine editor. In 2007, she debuted with her radio play Odpoledne s liliputem (Afternoon with a Lilliputian) and in 2012, she published her novella Ní cení (The Inflaming), for which she was nominated for the Czech Book Award and Josef S kvorecký Award. In 2017, she published a collection of short stories entitled Bí lá zví rata jsou velmi casto hluchá (Whi Jan Zikmund (born, 1981) graduated in English from the Charles University in Prague. He works for the Czech Literary Centre where he is primarily responsible for the promotion of Czech literature in English-speaking countries. As part of this job, he initiated, for instance, the 2020 Czech issue of the Modern Poetry in Translation magazine and organised the presentation of Czech comics at the 2021 Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is also an editor of the English-language literary magazine B O D Y. He is currently a member of the jury of the Magnesia Litera Award for Poetry, the most