Sylva Fischerová: Don't We Actually Live Different Lives?
– Czechia
Born 1963 in Prague, she is the daughter of philosopher and sociologist Josef Ludvík Fischer (1894–1973), and half-sister to poetess Viola Fischerová (1935–2010). A poetess, a novelist, an author of book interviews, books for children and youth, an editor,and an essayist. She studied classical philology at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University. She works as an associate professor at the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies there. She has published over twenty books; her debut collection The Tremor of Racehorses was published in 1986, this year she released the title Jiný život – Wittgenstein (Another Life – Wittgenstein). The annotation reads: "Memory plays its own games with us – and always comes out on top. The question arises: Aren't we actually living different lives because we remember the past incorrectly?"