(*1980)
Alena Machoninová is a Russianist and writer. She focuses primarily on contemporary Russian prose, prison camp literature, and unofficial poetry. She has translated into Czech the prose of Mariya Stepanova, the trilogy by Oksana Vasyakina, the memoirs of Tamara Petkevich, and „Happy Moscow“ (2022) by Andrei Platonov. Together with Jan Machonin, she compiled an anthology of poets from the Lianozovo school, „Thieves of Everyday Moments“ (2016). She edited „History of Russian Modernism“ (2022) by her teacher Miluše Zadražilová. Since 2020, she has been writing a regular column, „Blind in the Nettles“, for the biweekly magazine A2. In 2023, she published the prose work „Hella“, for which she received the Czech Literary Fund Foundation Award, the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year Award, and the Visegrad Literary Award.
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