Avigdor Dagan

Avigdor Dagan, Hebrew hebr אביגדור דגן, formerly Viktor Viktor Fischl or FISL (* June 30, 1912 in Hradec Kralove, Österreich-Ungarn/heute Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, † 28 May, 2006 Jerusalem, Israel) was a Czech poet, prose writer and journalist of Jewish origin and Israeli diplomat and ambassador.

Life

Viktor Fischl was born in Hradec Kralove, where he attended high school. Then he began his studies in Prague and later worked as a journalist and secretary of the Židovská strana (Jewish party). In 1939 he emigrated to London and worked there together in the Czechoslovak exile Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jan Masaryk. After the war he initially returned to Czechoslovakia. In 1949 he emigrated to Israel. His name is hebraisierter, fish derived from dag '.

Dagan lived in Jerusalem, also served his new country as a diplomat. First, as Secretary, then Counsellor in Tokyo (1955-1959), as charge d' affaires in 1959 and 1960 in Burma. Dagan represented Israel as ambassador from 1961 to 1964 in Warsaw, from 1966 to 1967 in Belgrade and in the years 1969 to 1972 in Oslo. For three months he worked in 1972 as a member of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations. In 1974 he was sent as ambassador to Vienna. This was his last diplomatic post.

After his retirement in 1977 he devoted all his time to literature. He wrote his narrative works exclusively in the Czech language, but translated them to some extent even into German.

Works

He wrote several novels that describe the relationship of God and the search for the truth are.

In German language published:

• The Fifth Quarter
• The court jester, Roman. Knaur Paperback, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-426-03220-1.
• Kafka in Jerusalem and other stories, Earthscan, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-60066-8.
• The Hahnenruf
• The Music Box
• The storks in the rainbow
• Conversations with Jan Masaryk, Thule, Cologne, 1986, ISBN 3-924345-02-3.
• History of Jerusalem