Ivan Blatný

Ivan Blatný was born on 21 December 1919 in Brno, the son of the writer Lev Blatný. Published in journals from 1933, he belonged to the circle of young poets gathered around Jiří Orten, then to Group 42. He left for England in March 1948 and did not return after the communist coup. Haunted by the fear of being kidnapped by the Czechoslovak secret police, he lived from 1954 in English psychiatric hospitals, then in a house in Clacton-on-Sea, and died in Colchester on 5 August 1990.

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• PoetryMelancholické procházkyIvan Blatný · 1941Literature