Upon publishing her first novel in 1981, she began to devote herself to writing full-time; she would go on to publish six novels (one unfinished), a number of plays, a volume of essays, and a documentary screenplay. Although her work features a strong connection to Czech culture, she wrote in German, saying, “I adore Czech. That is why I write in German—I have the necessary distance from it which makes it possible to write about things which touch me directly.” She died in 1998 in Berlin.