Tereza Horváthová

Tereza Horváthová was born in 1973 in Prague into a dissident intellectual family—her father was a theater critic, and her mother a translator. She studied Romance languages, specializing in French language and literature, at Charles University.

Twenty-five years ago, while still a student, she started making books with her future husband, illustrator Juraj Horváth. Together, they later founded Baobab, a publishing house for illustrated children’s books, creating a space for artists and writers of their generation, as well as for translations of picture books and prose, particularly from the Francophone world.
For over a decade, she’s also been running Tabook, an international festival for independent publishers. Alongside her publishing work, she translates and writes across different forms—book treatments for author books, longer prose for older children, poetry for both kids and adults, song lyrics, and film scripts. Her book The Blue Tiger was adapted into a film directed by Petr Oukropec, and in 2026, another of her books Sydney, or The Two of Us From B., is set to be made into a film.

She lives in Tábor with her husband, raising their eight children. Beyond writing and publishing, she initiates nonprofit cultural projects, such as “Neighbors’ University” and the culture space Truhlárna, and she is involved in a bit of political and cultural activism.

• 2005 The Blue Tiger
• 2006 The Coffee-foam Cat
• 2009 Max And Saša, Or Notes From Our Home
• 2010 Stromovka
• 2014 Valoušek’s Menagerie
• 2014 Little Fish
• 2020 Sydney (The Two of Us From B.)
• 2021 This is Tábor (ill. Joelle Jolivet)
• 2022 Nitka and the Lost Button
• 2023 The Wish (ill. Michaela Kukovičová)
• 2024 The Elder Tree (ill. Klára Zahrádková)