Ivan Blatný

Ivan Blatný ( born December 21, 1919 in Brno, † August 5, 1990 in Colchester, United Kingdom ) was Czech poet and member of the group 42

Life

In 1928 he took part in a competition by the daily newspaper the People's Daily in part ( Lidové noviny ). With his parents, he traveled a lot. 1935 died this and he was raised by his grandmother, with literature and writing helped him Vítězslav Nezval.

Blatný attended the gymnasium and studied Czech language, German language and Esperanto at the Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno after. After completion of university studies, he led an optical business, which he inherited from his grandfather and began to publish in journal articles.

After the Second World War he joined the Communist Party Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1948 and took part with one made ​​of three members of the Syndicate of Czech authors secondment to a trip to London, from which he never came back. In the Czech language broadcast of the BBC, he criticized the repression of freedom of culture and freelancing in Czechoslovakia. He was then classified as a traitor, his property confiscated, revoked the citizenship and prohibited his poems.

His life in exile was marked by a mental illness ( paranoid schizophrenia) and it is suspected that the KGB wanted him to kidnap because of its association with the BBC and Radio Free Europe. In 1954 he came to the psychiatric clinic ( Claubury Hospital in Essex ), 1967 then to the clinic in Ipswich in 1984 and finally to Clacton -on-Sea. He died in 1990, his ashes were interred in Brno.

In 1977 he met the nurse Frances Meacham, know who sent his works to Canada. There his works were published by the publishing house 68 Publishers.

Published in Germany

• Old Residences, 2005
• Landscape of new reps, 1992
• Auxiliary school Bixley
• Hope to return in 2002