Noch so einer – Pekárková Iva (2019)

IVA PEKÁRKOVÁ – A world traveler, a prose writer in the body of a reporter, who tells vibrant stories from a multicultural world. She views events in her homeland with an outsider's perspective, while observing global developments from immediate proximity. She speaks her mind, eschews sentimentality, and her literature is direct and unvarnished — in word, style, and chosen themes. She is intense, in a constantly evolving movement, free from prejudices and ideologies. Pure, extraordinary, necessary. "One can only write well and authentically about being different if one is themselves different from those we consider 'normal.' Whether the Other comes into the world deviating from the norm or becomes a stranger through flight or migration. Iva Pekárková's prose is authentic; her experience paints poetic images of otherness. The author understands her male heroes in these three beautifully sad stories about being different and its consequences. She also knows that being different is nothing reprehensible: just concrete in our heads that prevents us — the 'normals' — from seeing." JAROMÍR KONEČNÝ