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Monika Zgustova is an award-winning author whose works have been published in more than ten languages. She was born in Prague and studied comparative literature in the United States (University of Illinois and University of Chicago). She then moved to Barcelona, where she writes for El Pais, The Nation, and CounterPunch, among others. As a translator of Czech and Russian literature into Spanish and Catalan-including the writing of Havel, Kundera, Hrabal, Hasek, Dostoyevsky, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, and Babel-Zgustova is credited with bringing major twentieth-century writers to Spain. Her book Dressed for a Dance in the Snow- Women's Voices from the Gulag (Other Press, 2020) was a World Literature Today Notable Translation of the Year. Julie Jones is Professor Emeritus of Spanish at the University of New Orleans. She has published widely on the Latin American writers of the ""Boom,"" with a focus on Luis Bunuel's work, in numerous articles for journals such as Cineaste and Cinema Journal.
A unique, beautiful, and exhaustive piece of reporting that reads like an exciting narrative full of intrigue...A splendid complement to and continuation of Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. --ABC Cultural Reading Dressed for a Dance in the Snow makes you freeze, and not just from the cold that blows in from the tundra, but also from sheer fear...Zgustova reconstructs, through memories and confessions, the horror experienced by women in the Soviet Union's prison camps. --El Pais These testimonies, so cruel and real, have now been turned into a song of freedom. --Agenda Libros
