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Presented by the UCLA Library and the Czech Consulate General in Los Angeles
A reading and Q&A with Bianca Bellová, award-winning author of The Lake.
Speaker
Bianca Bellová was born in Prague, where she lives halfway between the Balkan and British parts of her family. She is a translator and interpreter. Her novel The Lake has won several literary awards, including the EU Prize for Literature, and publication rights have been sold to twenty-one countries” (Czech Lit).
Moderator
Jaroslav Olša Jr is a Czech diplomat whose posts include those of Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2000–2006), South Korea (2008–2014) and the Philippines (2014–2018), and Consul General in Los Angeles (2020–current); author of books on history, art, and literature of Asia and Africa. He is also a science fiction editor, translator, and bibliographer.