Ivan Klíma

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Ivan Klíma (born September 14, 1931 in Prague , born Ivan Kauders ) is a Czech writer .

Life

Klíma had to spend three years of his childhood as the son of Jewish parents in the Theresienstadt concentration camp . After his studies he worked as a journalist and editor, e. B. in the later banned literary magazine Literárni listy . Following the crackdown on the Prague Spring in 1968, Klíma was banned from publishing. A year earlier he had been expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia , which he had joined in 1953, because of his critical stance .

In 1969 Klíma went to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor / USA for a semester as a lecturer . In 1970 he returned to Prague and from then on wrote plays and novels here, which until 1989 were only allowed to appear abroad due to the publication ban.

In 2002 Klíma was awarded the Franz Kafka Literature Prize of the Franz Kafka Society in Prague.

Works

  • Hour of silence , novel. (1963) Translated from the Czech Maria Hammerich-Maier, Transit, Berlin 2012
  • The Jurors , play (1969)
  • Lovers for a Night, Lovers for a Day , Stories (1970)
  • Judge in his own case , Roman (1978)
  • A Summer of Love , novel (1973)
  • My First Loves , Roman (1981)
  • Love and Trash , Roman (1988)
  • Waiting for Darkness, Waiting for Light , novel (1993)
  • Love Conversations , Roman ( 1994 )
  • The people fell silent in: Martin Doerry (ed.): Nowhere and everywhere at home. Conversations with survivors of the Holocaust DVA , Munich 2006 ISBN 3-421-04207-1 (also as CD) pp. 110–119
  • The Mercy Judge , Roman (1981)

Film adaptations

  • 1979: Love for a summer (En kärleks sommar)

Memberships

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Klíma, Ivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague