Zbyněk Hejda

Zbyněk Hejda was born on 2 February 1930 in Hradec Králové, studied philosophy and history in Prague and was an assistant there until 1958. An employee of a cultural service of the city, then an editor, he became an antiquarian bookseller and lost that position after signing Charter 77; from 1981 to 1989, he was a caretaker. He translated Emily Dickinson, Trakl, Benn and Rimbaud, taught cultural anthropology after 1990, received the Jaroslav Seifert Prize in 1996 and died in Prague on 16 November 2013.

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• PoetryBlízkosti smrtiZbyněk Hejda · 1970not translated into EnglishLiterature