Stanislava Nopová

Stanislava Nopova (born May 26, 1953, in Zlín) is a Czech author, poet and publisher.

Biography
Stanislava Nopová was born on 26 May 1953 in Zlín. After graduating from secondary school in Zlín and then Nursing High School in Brno, she worked as a Physiotherapy specialist in Prostějov, Luhačovice and Hradec Králové. After a period of prolonged illness she left her work in the health services in the spring of 1989. She then started working as a florist, and later as a financial consultant and manager in an insurance company. During this time she studied literature and creative writing. Over the course of the next several years she wrote poems, fairy tales and story books. In 1999 she went to study in Australia, where she remained until 2001. After returning to the Czech Republic she began to publish her work in newspapers and magazines. In 2006 she published the first edition of The Christmas Newspaper. In early 2007 she founded the Prague Press newspaper, a monthly business and lifestyle magazine which is currently still in publication. Stanislava Nopová has been publishing books since 2002 and has compiled a travel guide about the fifth continent with the apt title The Best of Australia. Her writing for children has so far resulted in the published book The World Beyond the Cliffs. She introduced herself as a poet with the book entitled The Gift. The focus of the author's work is directed at creating prose for adults: Daiquirita, X Terra Incognita, To Kill for a Job, Hazardous Holiday.