"Upoutávají mě albánská města – svědkové dávných dob." : rozhovor s Hanou Tomkovou
"Albanian cities captivate me – witnesses of ancient times." : an interview with Hana Tomková

Summary/Abstract: PhDr. Hana Tomková (1934) studied Albanian and French at the Faculty of Philology of Charles University in Prague from 1952 to 1957. She began to study Albanian systematically in 1990, when she translated Ismail Kadare's novel General of the Dead Army. In 2007, in collaboration with Virgjil Monari, she published the Albanian-Czech and Czech-Albanian Dictionary, and in 2009 she selected and translated Albanian fairy tales and legends The Beauty of the Land. Albanian Fairy Tales and Legends. In 1996–1997, she lectured at the Prague Faculty of Philosophy as an external teacher on the history of Albanian literature and in 2000–2007, she taught Albanian to Czech soldiers serving in KFOR in Kosovo, for whom, in cooperation with other teachers, she prepared a textbook, a conversation guide, and a brief Albanian-Czech and Czech-Albanian dictionary Since the early 1990s, she has been publishing magazine articles and studies on Albanian literature and writers

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