Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: [Ludvik Kundera] published his first book,

a volume of poems Konstantina, in 1946.

In 1968-70 he worked as a programme manager of Brno´s Mahen theatre.

During normalisation, a tough period of hardline communist rule in the 1970s, following the crushing of the Prague Spring reform movement by the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, Ludvik Kundera´s work was banned. He continued translating German poetry under a fictitious name.

from Czech Happenings: Czech author Ludvik Kundera dies aged 90

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