Eva Profousová, born in Prague in 1963, has lived in Germany since 1983, where she studied Czech studies, Russian studies, and Eastern European history. Since 2002, she has worked as a freelance translator of contemporary Czech and Slovak prose into German (Jáchym Topol, Radka Denemarková, Jaroslav Rudiš, Katarína Kucbelová) and as a moderator. She describes herself as a lecturer, seminar leader, and/or mentor who contributes to the training of literary translators and, as a member of Weltlesebühne e.V., works to raise the profile of the translation profession. She has received several awards for her work, most recently the Literature Prize of the Kunststiftung NRW—the Straelen Translators’ Prize (2024)—and the Brücke Berlin Translators’ Prize (2022).

Eva Profousová was awarded the residency grant at the Künstlerhaus Bamberg by Bavarian State Minister Markus Blume, following a nomination by the members of the Villa Concordia Literary Fellowship Board of Trustees: Tanja Graf of the Literaturhaus München and Dr. Wolf Iro of the Goethe-Institut e.V. She will work there for 11 months, from mid-April through March 2027.

On Monday, July 13, 2026, the Künstlerhaus hosted an introductory evening with the translator.