Zbyněk Hejda
Zbyněk Hejda (2 February 1930, Hradec Králové – 16 November 2013, Prague[1]) was a Czech poet, essayist and translator (mainly from English - Emily Dickinson; and German - Georg Trakl, Gottfried Benn).[2]
Life[]
He studied philosophy and history at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.[3] From 1953 to 1958, he taught the history of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia at the Faculty of Arts.[3] From 1958 to 1968, he worked at the Prague Information Service, and later in 1968 he started working in a publishing house but left the very same year together with the whole editorial staff.[3] From 1968 to 1978 he worked in a second hand bookshop, until he signed the Charter 77 and was forced to leave.[3] From 1981 to 1989 he worked as a caretaker.[3] Since 1990 to 1995 he taught cultural anthropology at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University.[3]
Work[]
Since 1959 he published his poetry in literary magazines, including Revolver Revue, in the Czechoslovak Republic, and in Czech exile magazines, such as Svědectví published by Pavel Tigrid in Paris.[3] He received The Tom Stoppard Prize for his essays in 1989[2] and the Jaroslav Seifert Prize in 1996.[4]
Bibliography[]
- Všechna slast, 1964
- Blízkosti smrti, samizdat 1978, Munich 1985, Prague 1992
- Lady Felthamová, samizdat 1979, Paris 1987, Prague 1992
- Tři básně, samizdat 1987
- Pobyt v sanatoriu, 1993
- Nikoho tam nepotkám, 1994
- Valse mélancolique, Brno 1995
- Básně, 1996 (Collected Poems)
- Překlady, 1998 (Collected Translations)
- Cesta k Cerekvi, 2004
- Sny, 2007
References[]
External links[]
- Zbyněk Hejda (in Czech)
- Z. Hejda's poetry (in Czech)
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