Tučková studied at Gymnázium Kapitána Jaroše (Captain Jaroš’s Gymnasium) and got an academic degree in the field of history of art, Czech language, and Czech literature at The Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno.

This initiative, which was inspired besides other things, by her novel The Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch (Host, Brno 2009), also praised the German President Joachim Gauck in his speech on the Day of deportees.

From 2015 to 2018, she was the program director of the multi-genre festival Meeting Brno, which focuses on the confrontation of current and historical Central European topics and their artistic conception.

In 2017, Katerina Tučková was awarded the Prize for Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights for an extraordinary contribution to the reflection of modern history by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.

In 2022, Tučková received the Czech State Award for Literature for the novel Bílá Voda and for her body of work.