Education
Hůlová holds a degree in culturology from. She lived in Mongolia for one year as an exchange student after having studied the language and culture for several years and having originally had her interest sparked by "a chance encounter with the film Urga by acclaimed director Nikita Mikhalkov.".
Career
Hůlová rapidly rose to popularity in 2002 with the publication of her début novel Paměť mojí babičce, which became one of the most widely read Czechoslovakian books of the decade. Hůlová"s second novel, Přes matný sklo, is set in Prague. The book, divided into three sections, offers a portrait of a relationship between a son (Ondřej) and his mother (unnamed).
The first and third sections are narrated by the son.
The second, by the mother. Her stay as a Fulbright scholar in the Department of Anthropology at City University of New York in 2004-2005 inspired her third novel, Cirkus Les Mémoires, set in New New York
The author must be 30 or under at the time the work is finished, and the award carries a prize of 50,000 Kč (roughly $3,000). A stage adaptation by Viktorie Čermáková opened in Prague in 2007.
Čermáková chose to attribute the text to five call girls and one narrator.
In October 2009, Northwestern University Press published the first translation of her work in English, All This Belongs to Maine, a translation by Alex Zucker of her début, Paměť mojí babičce.
Views
The novel is told from the point of view of five female narrators from three generations of the same Mongolian family.