Background
She was born in Brno and was educated as an interpreter at Charles University in Prague.
She was born in Brno and was educated as an interpreter at Charles University in Prague.
In 1971, she moved to Italy, where she lectured in Czechoslovakian and was a researcher at the Institute of Slavonic Philology. She went on to lecture on Czechoslovakian language and literature in Padua and Viterbo. Her first book Návraty a jiné ztráty (Returns and other losses), a collection of short stories, was written in Italy and was published by 68 Publishers in 1978.
lieutenant was published in French as Retours et autres pertes in 1992.
Richterová has also translated works by Czechoslovakian writers into Italian.
