Veronika Bendová is a graduate in Screenwriting and Dramaturgy from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She has spent half her adult life in the home, raising five children. She made her literary debut in 2012, with the novella The Euphrates: Open All Hours / Nonstop Eufrat. This was followed in 2019 by A Depleted Land / Vytěženej kraj which was shortlisted for the Magnesia Litera Prose Award. She occasionally publishes short stories, two of which have been broadcast on Czech Radio. She now works for the Museum of Czech Literature, managing the Most Beautiful Czech Books of the Year competition.
