The counters to the falsities of the world are self-awareness and personal responsibility for the world in which I live
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Markéta Hrbková was born on 13 October 1961 in Prague. She is the daughter of Mojmír Hrbek, a pupil of the philosopher Patočka, and Ruth Hrbková, née Strass. She spent three years with her parents in England. After being expelled from grammar school, she attended an evening school in librarianship. She was under State Security surveillance, she signed Charter 77. In the late 1980s she studied Bohemistics at the “Underground University”. Her tutors were professors who were banned from teaching at Charles University, exams were written, and degrees were under the patronage of Cambridge University. After the revolution she worked as a translator and teacher. She is the author of three collections of poems.
