Poetic Obituaries: [Jiri] Grusa was chairman of the

International PEN Club in the past among others.

He signed the Charter 77 human writes manifesto after which he was forced to emigrate to Germany.

Grusa was ambassador to Germany and Austria after the communist regime fell in Czechoslovakia in 1989.

from Ceske Noviny: Czech writer and diplomat Jiri Grusa dies aged 72

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