Tereza Boučková

Tereza Boučková (born 24 May 1957) is a Czech writer.

[1] The daughter of playwright Pavel Kohout and Anna Cornová, she was born in Prague, attended high school and studied English for a year after being rejected by the Drama Academy for political reasons.

She signed Charter 77[2] and subsequently worked as a cleaner, postal worker and concierge.

[2] She published her first prose work Indiánský běh (Indian Run) in samizdat.

In 2006, she won first prize for her script Zemský ráj to napohled; she wrote the screenplay for the 2009 film of the same name directed by Irena Pavláskové[1] with English title An Earthly Paradise for the Eyes.