Studied at the department of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Masaryk University in Brno. Since 2001 has worked as an editor of the literary monthly Host, mainly dealing with the section World Literature. Has published articles of political, cultural, artistic and literary orientation in the periodicals Host, Tvar, Literární noviny, Lidové noviny, Právo, Mladá Fronta Dnes, Poslední generace, etc. As a translator has translated into Czech several books from the area of literary theory, philosophy, cultural studies, history of art, as well as works of fiction (mainly “nouveau roman” and French erotic literature).