- prose writer and translator
Markéta Hejkalová is a writer and translator from the Finnish. She has worked as a consulate officer at the Czech Embassy in Helsinki and is a former member of PEN International. She lives in Havlíčkův Brod, where she holds the annual Autumn Book Fair. Her most successful titles include the novel The House before the Square / Dům pod náměstím, which was published in 2022. Her books have been published in six languages.