Lidmila Sováková
Lidmila Sováková was born in Prague, where she lived until emigrating, in 1970, to England and then Germany—eventually settling in Paris in 1982. Multilingual, Sováková received her masters in Russian, Czech, and French at Charles University in Prague, a diploma of English language and literature from the University of Cambridge, England, and doctorat d’etat in French literature in France. She is the author of ten novels in addition to The Drowning of a Goldfish.
