Author · Czechia
Jan Čep
Died in 1974
Jan Čep was born on 31 December 1902 in Myslechovice, in Moravia, the eldest of the ten children of a small peasant carpenter. He studied Czech, French and English in Prague without finishing, spent a few months in Josef Florian's Catholic community at Stará Říše, then lived on translations and readers' reports for publishers. Expelled from the writers' union in February 1948, he reached Paris in August, worked for Radio Free Europe and in 1954 married the daughter of the critic Charles Du Bos. Struck by a stroke in 1965, he died in Paris on 25 January 1974.
In the catalogue 1
- NovelHranice stínuJan Čep · 1935not translated into EnglishLiterature