Martina Kutková

Martina Kutková studied Hebrew philology and translation from Spanish to Czech at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University. She currently teaches at the Institute of Translation Studies at the same faculty. She also holds translation seminars at the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures at the Masaryk University. Most of her translations are current Spanish-language prose (Rita Indiana, Guadalupe Nettel, Cristina Rivera Garza, Mónica Ojeda), but she also translates poetry (Bianca Monteiro Garcia, from Portuguese) and theatre. She is the editor for Spanish and Hispano-American literature at iLiteratura online magazine and works for the executive committee of the Czech Literary Translators´ Guild. She also works as a book editor for various Czech publishing houses. Since 2019, she is participating as a translator and mentor in the Connecting Emerging Literary Artists project, of the Creative Europe. She closely collaborates with Instituto Cervantes, Instituto Camões and Book World Prague, hosting literary debates.