A check writer and anti -communist disgruntled Ivan Clama, whose work and life were shaped by the 20th -century totalitarian rule of Europe.
His son Mishal told the check oftk news agency that Kalima died on Saturday morning after battling a prolonged illness. He was 94 years old.
A vigorous writer, Clima, published children’s books along with novels, drama, short story collections and essays, who became an internationally known writer, whose works were translated into more than 30 languages.
Born on 14 September 1931 in Ivan Kauders PratishClima faced her first repressive rule during World War II when her Jewish Family taken Nazis‘Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. Against obstacles, they all survived.
New Communist rule that took power Czechoslovakia In 1948, for the first time for Cleima and many others, promising was seen, which was persecuted.
Clima belonged to a group of talented authors – including Milan Kundera, Pavel Kohaut and Ludvik Volik – who moved to communism with high hopes after the war, which only to disappoint his dictator nature and his cruel circumstances of his totalitarian nature and opponents.
Cleema joined the Communist Party in 1953, the same year his father was imprisoned for political reasons. He was expelled from the party in 1967 after criticizing communist rule in a speech at a authors’ meeting.
A year later, his writing was banned after the Soviet -led military invasion in 1968, which crushed the liberal reforms of the government of Alexander Dabek and ended a more generous era known as “Prague Spring”.
“The 20th-century madness that I write is to do with the totalitarian ideologies that were responsible for incredible offenses,” Cleima described the Czech Public Radio in 2010 about her two-volume memoirs “My Crazy Century”.
“And despite the fact that those countries belonged to our civilization, they were a rich cultural tradition,” he said.
After studying the Czech language and literary theory at the University of Charles in Prague in the 1950s, Cleima worked as an editor for many literary magazines and began writing for magazines. His multi -layered stories and novels, including his highly acclaimed “Judge on Trial”, captured the status of individuals facing the machinery of the totalitarian state.
“The main character is working with an important theme for him,” Cleima said about her work, which was first published in German in 1979 in Switzerland. “Does society have the right to kill someone? And a judge who opposes capital punishment to do in society which demands it?”
After returning from a teaching tenure at the University of Michigan in 1969–1970, the Klíma check joined the disgruntled movement. At that time his books were released at home only in underground publications.
Nevertheless, unlike many other opponents of Communism, Calima was not required to do a manic job only to fulfill the end due to the support received from the authors Philip Roth. The American writer repeatedly visited Czechoslovakia in the 1970s to help Cleema, Kundera and other banned writers, and oversee the publication of his functions in the United States.
After 1989, the late Vaclav Havel, led by the Velvet Revolution, excluded the Communist rule in his motherland, focused a full -time focus on writing. Apart from “Judge on Trial”, his other famous works include “Love and Garbage,” “My Golden Trades” and “The Spirit of Prague and other essays”.
Unlike their complex, Calama’s books were more playful for children, Kafcask Adult Fiction. He included a screenplay for several episodes featuring the famous check cartoon hero The Little Mole.
In 2002, Havel – Until then the President of the country – won the medal for excellent service for the Czech Republic. The same year, Cleima also won the prestigious Franz Kafka Award.
He saw all the disturbed times, Cleema said that the moment he freed the Nazi concentration camp and alive was his most vivid experience.
“Life or death is only,” he said. “And doesn’t matter anything.”