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Annette Kobak
Annette Kobak is a writer and broadcaster. She recently read her book Joe's War: My Father Decoded as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. Described as a 'super-eclectic mix of memoir, biography, history and travelogue', and widely reviewed in Britain and America, it tracks her young Czechoslovak father's journey out of war-torn Europe in 1940, and her journey towards him. Her previous book was a biography of the traveller Isabelle Eberhardt, who crowned her dramatic career by drowning in the desert. Bill Bryson called Isabelle 'A wonderful book - instantly absorbing and beautifully written', and it was made into a film for BBC 2's series 'Great Journeys'. Annette also translated Eberhardt's novel Vagabond from the French. Annette's work for BBC Radio 4 includes presenting six series of interviews with travel writers, 'The Art of Travel'. She has reviewed travel books and fiction for broadsheets including the New York Times Book Review and the TLS, and has been a judge for the Society of Authors Travel Award. She has MA degrees from Cambridge in modern languages and from the University of East Anglia in creative writing. She lives in Bermondsey, and is currently writing a book about Madame de Staël, commissioned by Knopf and Virago.
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