Slávka Peroutková was the third wife of the Czech journalist and dramatist Ferdinand Peroutka. She lived with him in the United States and they together worked at Radio Free Europe. Ferdinand Peroutka died in New York in 1978, and Slávka Peroutková decided to return to Czechoslovakia after November 1989. Ten years later, in 1999, she donated Ferdinand Peroutkaʼs exile legacy to the Museum of Czech Literature.