Parents have created a safe environment for us despite everything.
Saša Uhlová was born on 9 March 1977 in Prague into the family of dissidents Anna Šabatová and Petr Uhl. When she was a year and a half old, her father was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison. Saša Uhlová knew that she would not be able to go to high school because of her parents’ involvement, but the Velvet Revolution, which the Uhl family experienced intensely, changed everything. In the 1990s, she studied high school in France and then graduated in Romance Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University. She taught for four years at the Roma Social High School in Cologne and then worked as a journalist. She did field research in excluded localities. She has written for Deník Referendum and A2larm. In her texts she focuses on social issues and working conditions. As part of her work, she has been employed several times under a changed identity in various low-wage jobs in the Czech Republic and abroad. She is married and has four sons. In 2024 she lived in Prague.