Lenka Lanczová

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Lenka Lanczová (born December 29, 1964 in Dačice ) is a Czech writer for young people.

Life

Lanczová attended the elementary school in Slavonice . After graduating from high school in Jindřichův Hradec , she worked for a year in the telecommunications center and since 1987 has been employed in the city library in Slavonice. She is married and has two kids. Her son David studies literature at the University of Prague , the daughter art at the Art School for Graphics. Both children have already published their own works. David poems, Sandra girls' and fantasy novels.

Works

She started writing when she was thirteen. Lenka Lanczová is now one of the most productive and widely read writers in her country. Heroes of her books are maturing girls who solve their interpersonal problems, whereby the main characters are mostly different from their surroundings. The two-part novel Lucky Luk is an exception . In this she describes the life of a boy who meets his dream woman after a life in prison and loses her again. In all of her works she describes the broad spectrum from the life of young people: joys and sorrows, first love, friendship, falsehood, drugs, incest, interruption, trauma after a rape, anorexia, alcoholism, addiction. She never lifts her index finger, but leaves it to the reader to draw their own conclusions. For her novels, she also collects suggestions from her readers. Usually this is done via their official homepage, letters or conversations. Lanczová has published 44 books so far, with between three and four novels appearing annually.

Awards

  • In the youth book competition Moje kniha (My Book), she won first place among Czech writers, ahead of Jaroslav Foglar and Božena Němcová . With international participation she took third place behind Joanne K. Rowling and JRR Tolkien . Four of her books are in the 100 most read, fifteen in the top 200.
  • In the Magnesia Litera 2005 competition , it received the most readers' votes. However, she did not win because the votes were split between three of her books.

Web links

see also list of Czech writers

personal data
SURNAME Lanczová, Lenka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer for young people
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Dačice