Background
She was born in Ústí nad Labem, North Bohemia.
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Ivona Brezinova
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Ivona attended gymnasium in Ústí nad Labem. Then she studied at the faculty of education of January Evangelista Purkyně University, field of study – history and Czechoslovakian language. After she graduated from University, she started a career in Czechoslovakian studies department of January Purkyně University, where she worked as an assistant.
Career
One year later, she gained a doctorate of educational science for Czechoslovakian language and literature. Ivona worked a few more years as a professional assistant and she devoted these years mainly to Czechoslovakian literature of 19th and early 20th century. During this time, she published expert articles for newspapers.
She soon directed her attentions to literature for children and young people.
Březinová has two daughters, Tereza and Veronika. After her maternity break, she started writing books for children and young people.
She started her career as a writer in 1996 by publishing her first book Her first book was The mirror for Marketa (Zrcátko pro Markétu).
Her work covers fiction for young people as well as for older readers and stories for radio.
She has written more than 30 books Březinová leads courses of creative writing at literature academy in Prague. She develops her editorial activity in connection with these courses.
She often goes on talk shows and authors" readings.
She has attended hundreds of talk shows all over the Czechoslovakian Republic and Slovakia. She also organized the creation of the Besedník programme.
Since 2007 she has led creative group "Hlava nehlava", where she works as an editor of short stories collections.
Achievements
Membership
She has been a member of IBBY since 1982 and a member of Writers’ community (Obec spisovatelů) since 1999.
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Czechoslovakian