The winner of the prestigious 2018 Magnesia Litera Award for Prose went to
journalist, translator and writer Pavla Horáková for her novel A Theory
of Strangeness. Pavla, who is a former Radio Prague reporter, now has
several books under her belt, including a popular trilogy for children and
a book on soldiers serving in WWI. However, her first big novel, A Theory
of Strangeness, which was an overnight success, is the most difficult to
define. So when I met up with Pavla to talk about her new book my first
question was how she herself would define