Jiřina Hauková

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Jiřina Hauková (born January 27, 1919 in Přerov , † December 15, 2005 in Prague ) was a Czech poet and translator.

Life

Hauková, daughter of Karel Hauke, editor of the daily Obzor ("Horizont") in Přerov , graduated from the grammar school in her hometown in 1938 and studied Bohemian and English studies until the Masaryk University in Brno closed in 1939 . Then she started working as an editor at Obzor in Přerov. After the Second World War she studied at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague and worked until 1950 in the Ministry of Public Enlightenment under František Halas and in the Ministry of Information under Adolf Hoffmeister .

From 1945 Hauková was a member of Group 42 ( Skupina 42 ), in whose spirit she also wrote. In 1950 she married the art critic Jindřich Chalupecký .

Works

Volumes of poetry

From her second volume of poetry, Fremdes Zimmer (Cizí pokoj, 1946), Hauková's poetic works are influenced by modern Anglo-American poetry. In her poems she deals with the loneliness and alienation in cities. A selection of her work Triebe (Letorosty, with an afterword by Bedřich Fučík ) was banned in 1970. Hauková had to publish a number of her poetry volumes in samizdat . The collection Butterfly and Death (Motýl a smrt - self-published 1976, printed 1990) contains poems from the period of normalization .

  • Přísluní , 1943
  • Cizí pokoj , 1946
  • Oheň ve sněhu , 1958
  • Rozvodí času , 1967
  • Spodní proudy , 1988
  • Motýl a smrt , 1990
  • Světlo v září , 1995
  • Mozaika z vedřin , 1997
  • Večerní prška , 2002
Translations

In addition to her own works, she has also translated from English, including Edgar Allan Poe , TS Eliot , Emily Dickinson , Dylan Thomas , John Keats .

Awards

In 1996, Hauková and Zbyněk Hejda were awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Prize for their life's work .

source

  • Jiřina Hauková - entry in Slovník české literatury po roce 1945 , Institute for Czech Literature of the AV ČR

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personal data
SURNAME Hauková, Jiřina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haukova, Jirina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Přerov
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 2005
Place of death Prague