Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz (born Markéta Götzová; 15 February 1927 – 6 November 2022) was a Canadian scholar and translator, best-known for her work on Czech literature.
[2] Radio Prague International described her as "a crucial link for Czechoslovak dissidents with the West, smuggling forbidden books into Czechoslovakia and in turn smuggling dissident literature out of the country, helping to bring it into the Western consciousness.
[4] She wrote her doctoral thesis on the 19th century German novelist Wilhelm Raabe.
[6] From 1959, she taught German literature at University of British Columbia, and was best known for her scholarship on samizdat and dissident writers such as Václav Havel.
From 1973 to 1989, she travelled annually to Prague, and met many Czech writers, promoting their work in the west.