Zdena Škvorecká

Biography

Zdena Salivarová was a Czech-born writer and translator who defied censorship by founding 68 Publishers in Toronto, Canada, which published banned Czech works. Following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, she emigrated with her husband Josef Škvorecký to the United States before settling in Toronto. Salivarová studied script-writing at Prague's Academy of Performing Arts and worked as a singer and actress during the 1960s.