Jiří Gruša

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Jiří Gruša (10 November 1938, in Pardubice – 28 October 2011, in Bad Oeynhausen) was a Czech poet, novelist, translator, diplomat and politician.

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Life and career Gruša was born in Pardubice, then Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic), and later moved to Prague. He graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. He worked for periodicals Tvář, Sešity and Nové knihy. He started coming under the scrutiny of the communist regime of then Czechoslovakia in 1969 because of his writings. He was banned from publishing and had to work in a construction cooperative. He took part in distribution of samizdat literature. He was arrested in 1974 for "the crime of initiating disorder" after distributing nineteen copies of his first novel, Dotazník (The Questionnaire) and voicing his intention to have it published in Switzerland. After world-wide protest, he was released after two months. He later became a signatory of the human rights document, Charter 77. In 1981 his citizenship was revoked, and between 1982 and 1990 he lived in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1990 conditions in Czechoslovakia became more favorable and he returned to work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1991 to 1997, he served as an ambassador to Germany. Later, he joined the minority government of Václav Klaus as a Minister of Education. The government lost support of the…Citește mai mult

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Awards and honors 2007: Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France 2006: New Culture of New Europe Award

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English translated Franz Kafka of Prague, Trans. Eric Mossbacker. The Questionnaire, Trans. Peter Kussi.

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Umění stárnout [The Art of Aging] Gebrauchsanweisung für Tschechien und Prag [Instruction Manual for the Czech Republic and Prague] Grušas Wacht am Rhein aneb Putovní ghetto [The Watch on the Rhein]

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Original in German Beneš als Österreicher Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2012 ISBN 9783990290088