Invisible minutes
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Invisible minutes
A novel about two women from different eras who met in the same place
The novel 'Neviditelné minuty' (Invisible Minutes) is the boldest thing Jana Poncarová has written to date. The year is 2023 and I'm moving to Domažlice. I'm going there willingly, for my love. I don't expect to meet her there – the year is 1845 and Božena Němcová is arriving in the same town. Because she has to. What has changed for us female writers since then? The times may have, but society as such has not. We both face similar challenges. We steal time for our writing, we justify ourselves, we want to create homes for our loved ones, but also literature. We feel guilty for needing to write and be ourselves. Can we do it?
Jana Poncarová
Jana Poncarová is a writer and journalist. She draws inspiration from real events of the 20th century, basing her work on research and interviews with witnesses. She debuted in 2018 with the novel 'Podbrdské ženy' (Women of the Brdy Highlands), which was met with enthusiastic reader acclaim. For her novel 'Eugenie', she won the Readers' Prize in the Czech Book 2020 competition. This was followed by the novels 'Alžběta a Nina', 'Cyklistka' (The Cyclist), 'Herečka' (The Actress), 'Nultá hodina' (The Zero Hour), 'Dvojí život' (A Double Life) and 'Anna R.'. In collaboration with historian Jiří Sankot, she wrote the book 'Deník Věrky Kohnové' (The Diary of Věrka Kohnová), commemorating the fate of this Jewish girl and her family. She retold Věrka's story for children in the book 'Tajemství Věřina deníku' (The Secret of Věrka's Diary), published by Albatros. For a non-traditional tourist series, she prepared the guide 'Za tichem: Český les' (In Search of Silence: The Bohemian Forest). In the collection of intimate portraits 'Ženy slova' (Women of the Word), she presented the stories of forgotten Czech female writers.
