Jan Beneš (writer, 1936)

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Jan Beneš (born March 26, 1936 - June 1, 2007 ) was a Czech poet, translator, screenwriter and publicist. He used the pseudonyms Milan Štěpka , Bobisud Mihule , Mojmír Čada , Ing. Čada , JAB , JeBe , Světlana , among others . He wrote novels and some historical books.

Life

He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Prague. He was the political persecutor of the communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia and fled to the United States in 1969 shortly before an intended arrest . He fought for ten years to have his two children join them. He taught at Harvard University in the 1970s . He was a volunteer with the US Air Force Green Beret and worked for the Department of Defense there for 20 years .

After the fall of the Iron Curtain , he returned to his homeland in 1993.

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Short stories
  • Do vrabců jako když střelí , Naše Vojsko, Prague 1963
  • Situace , 1963
  • Disproporce , Čs. spisovatel, Prague 1965, partially banned
  • Na místě , Mladá fronta, Prague 1969, prohibited
    • Na místě , '68 Publishers, Toronto 1972
  • Až se se mnou vyspíš, budeš plakat , Mladá fronta, Prague 1969, banned
  • Můj otec nepadl za nikoho , Melantrich, Prague 1969, prohibited
  • The Blind Mirror , 1971
  • Banánové sny , Konfrontace, Zurich 1984
  • Žádné kvítí , Rozmluvy, London 1986
  • Svoboda nechodí v rudém šatě , Primus, Prague 1995
  • Psové a jiné animálie , Primus, Prague 2004
Novels
  • Druhý dech , Melantrich, Prague 1969, distribution prohibited
    • Second Breath , Grossmann Press, New York 1969
    • Druhý dech , Konfrontace, Zurich 1974 (first Czech edition)
    • Druhý dech , Mladá fronta, Prague 2006
  • Trojúhelník s Madonou , Naše Vojsko, Prague 1969, banned
    • Trojúhelník s Madonou , '68 Publishers, Toronto 1979
  • Zelenou nahoru , '68 Publishers, Toronto 1977
    • Indolence , Primus, Prague 1994
    • Zelenou nahoru: kiss me, I am Bohemian, kriminaloidní sci-fiction přítomně minulé budoucnosti , Knižní klub, Prague 2001
  • Smrt kmotřička , Elka Press, Prague 2001
  • Balada o Ludimíru , Primus, Prague 1996
  • Americká causerie: Čtení po Evropě , Primus, Prague 1997
  • Americký pitaval , Čs. spisovatel, Prague 1997
  • Jan Beneš; Josef Frolík : Střílející abatyše , Votobia , Prague 2001
  • Moji výbušní zlotvoři , Votobia, Prague 2001
Educational works
  • Ve znamesí lva , historie čs. zahraničních armád, 1972, časopis ABC | časopise ABC, Prague 1991–94
  • Always Dubiety , for the United States Senate Moynihan Commission , 1974
  • The Geography and History of Czechoslovakia I. + II. , for the United States Department of Defense, 1986
  • The Economical and Political Affairs in Contemporary Czechoslovakia , for the United States Department of Defense, 1986
  • Zločin genocidy: Litva v drtivém objetí velkého bratra SSSR 1939-1953 , Polish, Wuppertal 1989, Votobia, Prague 2001
  • Ve znamedí temna: sovětská špionážní a podvratná činnost proti Československu v letech 1918-1969: studijní materiál pro doplnění zápočtových seminářů FFUK (based on the preliminary work by František August 2001), Votobia, Prague 2001
  • Čas voněl snem: stručný přehled dějin VKS (b): doplňkový studijní materiál , Primus, Prague 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martina Schneibergová: Writer Jan Benes has died (obituary), Radio Prague , June 5, 2007, accessed on November 23, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Beneš, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Štěpka, Milan; Mihule, Bobisud; Čada, Mojmír; Ing. Čada; JAB, Jan; JeBe, Jan; Světlana, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech poet, translator, screenwriter and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1936
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2007