Alex Zucker is a translator from Czech whose translations include novels by J. R. Pick, Petra Hulová, Jáchym Topol, Magdaléna Platzová, Tomás Zmeskal, Josef Jedlicka, Heda Margolius Kovály, Patrik Ouredník, and Miloslava Holubová. He has also translated stories, plays, subtitles, young adult and children's books, song lyrics, reportages, essays, poems, and an opera. Bianca Bellova (b. 1970) is a Czech translator, interpreter, and writer with Bulgarian roots. Her novel Mrtvý muz (Dead Man, 2011) received widespread critical acclaim and has been translated into German. Her latest novel, Jezero (The Lake, 2016), won the EU Prize for Literature and will be published in more than ten languages.