Jan Skácel

January Skácel ( born February 7, 1922 in Vnorovy; † November 7, 1989 in Brno ) was a Czech poet.

Skácel studied in Brno at the high school and at Masaryk University. Between 1954 and 1963 he worked in the literary editors of the Brno Radio. From 1963 he was editor of Culture Revue Host do domu. Until 1969 he published a book of prose and five books of poetry. 1969 Host do domu was banned and Skácel denied the publication of their own works. His works he published until 1981 in the so-called samizdat or abroad. It was not until 1981 he was allowed to bring out a selection of his poems in Czechoslovakia. In 1989 he received the Petrarch Prize and the Virenica Prize, the most prestigious prize for poetry in Yugoslavia. He is an honorary citizen of the city of Brno.

In 1967 German came out first volume of poetry for the fare thereof, Charon; under the title Wundklee appeared 1982, another collection of poems, the disclosure of which the German poet Reiner Kunze helped promote, not least through his congenial translation. More German editions are the 1991 published book of poems " A wind named Jaromir " and " Again Love" from 1993, both in the Residenz Verlag, translated by Felix Philipp Ingold. In Wieser Verlag newspaper supplement volumes, " The Eleventh white horse " and " The Thirteenth black horse " appeared.

In a French translation of the band " Millet ancien " is present ( its title Reiner Kunze in German with " millet millet rather long " reproduces ), transferred from Yves Bergeret and Jiří Pelan, published by small publishing house "Atelier la Feugraie ".

Works (selection)

• January Skácel: the fare thereof, for Charon [ poems ] (Original Title: Translated by Reiner Kunze Smuténka. ), Merlin, Hamburg 1967.
• Antonín Gribovsky Jan Skácel: Olomouc, Profile, Ostrava 1968 ( Captions German, English and French).
• January Skácel: Wundklee [ poems ] (Translation and afterword by Reiner Kunze ), Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-10-076203-7.
• January Skácel: A wind named Jaromir [ poems ] ( Felix Philipp Ingold Übers ), Residenz Verlag, Vienna 1991.
• January Skácel: Again the love [ poems ] ( Felix Philipp Ingold Übers ), Residenz Verlag, Vienna 1993.