Ivan Diviš

Ivan Divis ( born September 18, 1924 in Prague, † April 7, 1999 ) was a Czech poet.

Life

During the Second World War, he attended high school in Prague. In 1941 he was arrested by the Gestapo and later released. From 1942 to 1949 he was an apprentice in a bookstore employee and editor of the publishing house Václav Petr. After high school he studied from 1945 to 1949 philosophy and aesthetics at Charles University. 1960 to 1968 he worked at the newspaper Mladá fronta ( " The Young Front" ) and briefly on the magazine Sešity ( " notebooks" ) as an editor. In August 1969 he went into exile in Munich and worked as an editor at the radio station Free Europe. After the Czech Republic, he returned back in 1997.