Zuzana Brabcová

Zuzana Brabcová (23 March 1959 – 20 August 2015) was a Czech writer.^[1][2]

The daughter of Jiří Brabec and Zina Trochová, both literary historians, she was born in Prague. After completing her schooling, she worked in the University Library in Prague, in a hospital and as a cleaner. She later became an editor, working for several publishing houses.^[1]

Her first novel Daleko od stromu (Far from the tree) was first published in a Samizdat edition in 1984 and then in Prague in 1991.^[3] It received the Jiří Orten Award in 1997.^[4] This was followed by the novel Zlodějina (Thievery) in 1996.^[3] In 2000, she published her third novel Rok perel (Year of pearls), the first Czech novel to deal with lesbian love.^[4]

Brabcová was awarded the Magnesia Litera for fiction in 2013 for her novel Stropy.^[5]