Markéta Zinnerová

Markéta Jílková (née Zinnerová) (born 21 June 1942, Brno, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Czech Republic)) is a Czech novelist, screenwriter, author of literature for children and youth. After studying in Prague, she worked in awareness-raising facilities in Liberec and Sokolov. From 1962 to 1964, she was employed as a train attendant. At the end of the sixties, she worked for the publishers of Mladý svět and Květy. From 1971 to 1976, she broadcast a literary show for children and youth for Czechoslovak television. Since 1976, she has been a writer by profession. She worked for the brief Czechoslovak Radio and, from 1991 to 1992, worked as a methodologist at a children's home. From 1981 to 1985, she studied dramaturgy and screenwriting at Prague's FAMU. Provided by Wikipedia