Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan kammala karatunta daga makarantar sakandare a 1939, ta fara karatun falsafa a Brno, inda ta zauna har sai 'yan Nazi sun rufe dukkan jami'o'i. Bayan haka ta yi aiki a matsayin edita a cikin "Obzor" ("The Horizon") a Přerov. Ta gama karatunta a 1949 a Jami'ar Charles a Prague. Har zuwa 1950, lokacin da ta fara aiki a matsayin marubuciya, ta yi aiki ga Ma'aikatar Watsa Labarai. Bayan 1968
an hana ta wallafawa kuma an buga wasu ayyukanta a ƙasashen waje. Baya ga littattafan waƙoƙinta, ta kasance sanannen mai fassara daga Ingilishi. Ta fassara "The Waste Land" (tare da mijinta) a cikin 1947, da kuma littattafan Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, Emily Dickinson da Dylan Thomas. Ta kasance mai fassara da jagorar Thomas lokacin da ya ziyarci Prague a watan Maris na 1949 don halartar taron marubuta. Ta ba da lissafi game da ziyarar Thomas a cikin tarihinta, "Záblesky života", wanda aka sake buga shi a cikin fassarar Turanci.