Michaela Klevisová
June 22, 1976
Michaela Klevisová is a Czech writer, journalist, translator and screenwriter. She won the 2008 George Mark Award for Best Detective Book of the Year for Her First Steps as a Murderer, and received it for the second time in 2012 for the novel House alone.
She studied journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University, which she has been pursuing professionally since 1997. She writes for Cosmopolitan magazine, where she is in charge of the book news section. Previously, it produced art articles for Hospodářské noviny MAGAZINE IN and travel reports for Travel Digest magazine. In 2008, she collaborated on several scripts for The Street. She was also involved in the Prague Noir project, commissioned in the Czech Republic by the New York-based publisher Akashic Books.
She published a story here together with 13 other Czech authors. This project helped the author, her popularity increased, and so did the demand for their books. Critics rank her work as an English-style mystery, in which the order of a community that is still functioning must be restored. The police investigate the case, it is set in a credible and well-described contemporary Czech environment, and it places great emphasis on the psychological portrayal of the characters and the social background of the story.