Ondřej Macl & Anna Luňáková: Let's just lose the names and jump into the darkness together
– Czechia
Macl: Born in 1989 in Hradec Králové, he studied comparative literature at Charles University, authorial acting at DAMU and social work and journalism at Masaryk University. Writer, performer, social worker, editor of Revue Prostor and occasional translator (Roland Barthes, Oscar Wilde…).
Author of the literary collage Miluji svou babičku víc než mladé dívky (I Love My Grandma More than Young Girls, 2017), the collection K čemu jste na světě (What Are You in the World For, 2018), the novella Výprava na ohňostroj (Expedition to a Fireworks Display, 2019) and the political satire Baban Rejdiš: Legenda o Bocianovi (Baban Rejdiš: Legend of the Stork, 2021). He is currently preparing the collection Hrajte ještě dál (Continue Playing Still) and his dissertation České moře (The Czech Sea) for publication.
More at: www.ondrejmacl.cz
Luňáková: Born in 1993 in Jičín, she studied philosophy and romance philology at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University and authorial acting at DAMU in Prague. Writer, translator, theatre artist, editor of Revue Prostor and chairwoman of the Czech Writers Association.
She has published the novella Tři! (Three!, 2020), the collection Jen ztratím jméno (I’ll Just Lose a Name, 2020) and a book for children and youths Atlas babiček (The Atlas of Grandmas, 2022). She translated the Letter to D. by André Gorz. She also initiated the creation of the poetry anthology Pandezie (2021). She is currently preparing a collection Město kovu (The City of Metal) and her dissertation Jedna kaple, jeden básník: příběh exulanta Jiřího Volfa (One Chapel, One Poet: The Story of an Exile Jiří Volf) for publication.