Kristina Černá

Kristina Černá, née Lukášová, is a successful psychologist with a long and colorful career, as well as a poet and a translator. She was born on July 14, 1959, in Kroměříž, but spent half of her life in Bratislava, where she witnessed the various reversals and milestones of Czech history. She experienced the typical manifestations and the atmosphere of each of the epochs first hand. The period after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet troops, which was characterized by stern reprisals against political opponents by the regime of the Communist Party, the Velvet revolution and the post-revolutionary euphoria, the disappointment of the new political system, the large-scale theft of former state assets, colloquially called “tunneling,” connected to the era of privatization of the early 1990s. Her life was significantly affected by the division of Czechoslovakia in 1992, when she had to quickly move out of Bratislava to Prague with her husband and little son.

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