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00:00 Introduction 12:00 Lecture by the laureate Mgr. Jana Žďárská (*1969) works at the Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic as the executive editor of the Czechoslovak Journal of Physics. Her father brought her interest in science in her childhood. As an author, she focuses mainly on interviews with scientists and reports from the scientific environment as part of the popularization of science. As part of the popularization of science, he publishes in the Czechoslovak magazine for physics, the Slovak Kozmos and the popular science magazine Tajemství vísomru. She is a member of the Czech Astronomical Society (ČAS), its Cosmological Section (until recently as its vice-chairman) and also the Astronautical Section of the ČAS, the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists (JČMF), a judge of the Czech Astrophotography of the Month (ČAM) and a member of the Cosmo Club zs. She loves children, nature, she rescues dogs from shelters, likes to photograph and write poems. Jana Žďárská devotes herself with unusual zeal to the popularization of science, especially physics. A substantial part of her interviews with important scientific workers is devoted to astronomy and astrophysics. In them, he presents the results of their research, as well as their life course and opinions, to the informed reader in a popular form. He tries to treat the interviews as biographical, so he also pays attention to important life situations that shaped the scientific career of the interviewees. It does not only describe their scientific achievements, it tries to offer a comprehensive view of their scientific work and life. As she says herself, "I specialize above all in interviews with scientists. You might ask why? After all, they publish their results in the media themselves. Of course, yes, but I would very much like to bring their work and results closer to all of us, because I consider it important that every person can learn what tasks scientists deal with and what it can bring us." To date, he has a total of already 125 such interviews (see their list below). In 2022, the Academia publishing house published her book Pleasures and sorrows of the scientists of our homeland, containing 15 selected interviews. And he's planning another one. Last year's winner of the Jan Vondrák award summarizes this year's nomination: "I am deeply convinced that Jana Žďárská fully deserves the Littera Astronomica award from the Czech Astronomical Society for this perfectly done popularization work of hers".