Petra Hulova (Czech republic): All that Belongs to Me

Translation: Alex Zucker

Irena Murray-Zantovska
Dr Irena Murray-Zantovska is an architectural historian and curator, currently Sir Banister Fletcher Director of the British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects.

Petra Hulova (Czech Republic),  a rising star of Czech literature, is a very versatile writer  whose five novels have had a huge impact on contemporary Czech literature.  She has won many awards, starting with the Magnesia Litera Award, 2003 for her debut novel All that Belongs to Me. .

Petra Hulova: All that Belongs to Me, transl. Alex Zucker, Northwestern University Press, autumn 2009
Set in Mongolia and narrated by five different women from three generations of one family, All that Belongs to Me became one of the most successful and most widely read Czech books of the decade.