Welcome!

My writing draws from the varied experiences of my life, which has taken me to three continents, brought me across geopolitical divides, and made me a witness to many historical events.

— Anika Pavel

Reviews…

“Encounter with the Future uses a series of interconnected essays to follow author Anika Pavel from her childhood in Iron Curtain Czechoslovakia to her struggles and then successes as an international fashion model and actor in mod era London to her present life as a writer, wife, mother and grandmother. The individual essays in story form chronicle this life still in forward motion, and are written with the wit and warmth and perceptiveness which characterize the author herself.”

— Kristopher Franklin, author of Silvercat, The High San Juan, Relentless, and Gravedigger

“Anika Pavel manages, from her present and sophisticated vantage, to evoke the innocence of youth. In pellucid prose she gives us both a history of transience—from Czechoslovakia to England—and the coming-of-age story of a brave young woman who travels open-eyed.”

— Nicholas Delbanco, author, most recently, of Why Writing Matters

“A tapestry of stories that resonate on a deeply personal level.”

— Martina Moravcova, two time Olympic medalist

“The essays in Encounter with the Future have accomplished what we always ask of great writing, to transport us in place and time and original vision.”

— Mark Leichliter editor of bioStories Magazine

What is my book about?

Encounter with the Future is an autobiographical collection of essays about… Politics; Eastern Europe; Prague Spring; Entertainment and the Performing Arts; the Iron Curtain; James Bond; Czechoslovakian Books; Family; Fame; Modeling; Acting; Motherhood!

The immigrant story never seems to go away and each is as varied as the person who experiences it. Although my circumstances were different at different times, there is always an essential struggle common to the experience.