Name Ivan Divis Role Poet | Books Sursum | |
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Died April 7, 1999, Prague, Czech Republic Education Charles University in Prague | ||
Ivan divi 27 9 1990
Ivan Diviš (September 18, 1924, Prague – April 7, 1999, Prague) was a significant Czech poet and essayist of the second half of the 20th century.
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Ivan divi
Biography
He was born in Prague into the family of a bank officer. While at high school in Prague during World War II he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Pečkárna and Pankrác. From 1942 he worked in a bookstore, and at the end of the war he was employed at publisher V. Petr. After passing his maturita he studied philosophy and aesthetics at Charles University (1945–1949). In the early 1950s he worked as a corrector at the Communist Rudé právo newspaper. After 1953 he worked a lathe in Liberec and Prague-Kbely. In the 1960s he was an editor at Mladá fronta publishing house. In 1964 he converted to Roman Catholicism. In the aftermath of the Prague Spring, he emigrated to West Germany in 1969 and worked for Radio Free Europe. He lived in Munich.
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