Zdena Salivarová

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Zdena Salivarová (married Škvorecká, born October 21, 1933 in Prague ) is a Czech-Canadian actress, singer, writer and publisher. She lives in Toronto , Canada.

Life

She was born in 1933 as the daughter of the Prague bookseller and publisher Jaroslav Salivar (1902–1969). The father was arrested in 1949 and emigrated to the USA after his release in 1950. Zdena Salivarová graduated from high school in Prague in 1952. In 1958 she married the writer Josef Škvorecký .

Salivarová was a member of the Czechoslovak state singing and dance ensemble from 1952 to 1962 and, from 1959 to 1961, was also engaged as a singer and actress at Prague's Laterna Magika . 1962–1965 she was part of the Paravan cabaret ensemble . 1965–1968 she studied dramaturgy at the Prague film school FAMU and worked in several film productions. In 1969 she left Czechoslovakia with her husband and emigrated via the USA to Canada , where she has lived since then.

In 1971 the Škvorecký couple founded the exile publishing house 68 Publishers in Toronto , which Salivarová ran until it was dissolved in 1993. In the 1970s and 1980s, the publisher was one of the best-known addresses for Czechoslovak exile and samizdat literature. From 1971 to 1975 Zdena Salivarová and Josef Škvorecký also published the cultural magazine Parabola . Because of her journalistic activity Salivarová was stripped of her Czechoslovak citizenship in 1978 . In 1990 she received the Order of the White Lion of the Czech Republic for this very activity . In 1992 the University of Toronto awarded her an honorary doctorate.

Literary work

Zdena Salivarová made her literary debut in the early 1960s with short stories that appeared in the magazines Host do domu and Plamen . In addition to a number of short stories, novellas and short stories, she wrote two autobiographical novels ( Honzlová , 1972, and Hnůj země , 1994). In 1993 she edited the anthology Osočení , the last publication of the 68 Publishers , a collection of letters whose authors were accused of collaborating with the Czechoslovak State Security . Salivarová herself also found her name recorded in the controversial and apparently manipulated informant lists published by Petr Cibulka in 1993 . Since the late 1990s the author has been working with Josef Škvorecký on a series of detective novels.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zdena Salivarová-Škvorecká (ed.), Osočení. Pravdivé příběhy lidí z 'Cibulkova seznamu' (Defamation. True stories of the people from 'Cibulka's List'), Brno 2000 (1st edition 1993)
  2. ↑ Muriel Blaive, Zpřístupnění archivů komunistické tajné policie ..., online at: Page no longer available , search in web archives: www.pwf.cz/cz/archiv ... , Czech, accessed on July 14, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.pwf.cz
personal data
SURNAME Salivarová, Zdena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-Canadian writer, singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague