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Ladislav Dvořák

Died in 1983

Ladislav Dvořák was born on 1 December 1920 in Krásněves, near Velké Meziříčí, into the large family of a village blacksmith. He passed his school-leaving exams in 1943 and was conscripted to work in an aircraft factory. He took part in the Prague uprising in May 1945, then studied literature in Prague until his expulsion in 1948. A labourer, antique dealer's clerk and editor, then an employee of the Slavonic Library, from which he was dismissed after signing Charter 77, he ended as a printing-house proofreader and died in Rokycany on 22 June 1983.

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