Pavel Kohout

Pavel Kohout was born on 20 July 1928 in Prague. A fervent communist on leaving the lycée, a poet of the building of socialism and a cultural attaché in Moscow, he obtained a diploma in aesthetics and theatre in 1952, then became a playwright and one of the figures of the Prague Spring; he was expelled from the party in 1969. A co-founder of Charter 77, allowed to leave for Austria in 1978, he was stripped of his nationality and forbidden to return, received Austrian nationality in 1980 and settled in Vienna.

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• NovelThe HangwomanKatyněPavel Kohout · 1978Literature