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Petra Hulová

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July 19, 1979 in Prague, Czech Republic

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Literature & Fiction

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Czech writer. She studied culturology at Charles University in Prague's Faculty of Philosophy and Arts.

Hůlová rapidly rose to popularity in 2002 through the publication of her novel In Memory of my Grandmother, which became one of the most widely-read Czech books of the decade. She is fluent in the Mongolian language. She stated that the novel, which is told from the point of five female narrators belonging to three generations of the same family, is actually based more on Czech people she knows and on Czech life, rather than her experiences in Mongolia. She chose to set the novel in Mongolia to avoid the necessity of writing about "artificial phenomena". The novel won the Magnesia Litera Prize in the category Newcomer of the Year, and was...more

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Average rating: 3.43 · 44 ratings · 3 reviews · 1 distinct work

All This Belongs to Me: A Novel
by Petra Hulová, Alex Zucker (Translator), Petra Hulova

3.86 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions

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