Petra Klabouchová’s books have been published in four languages: French, Italian, Macedonian and Polish, with the rights sold to Egypt, Germany and Serbia.
Petra Klabouchová (b. 1980) comes from Prachatice. Having studied Media and Journalism at Masaryk University in Brno, she worked for several years for the regional press and television. She now divides her time between Italy, the USA and the Czech Republic, working in the music industry as manager of a number of rock groups.
She is the author of a number of books, the most successful of which include the crime novel Sources of the Moldau / Prameny Vltavy (2021), the novel By the North Wall / U severní zdi (2023), and Ignis fatuus (2024), a mystery horror set in the Bohemian Forest which was nominated for a Magnesia Litera award. Her last novel, The Spirit of Pankrác / Duch Pankráce (2025), was inspired by real-life notes written in the prison at Pankrác.
