Czech writer and dissident Ivan Klíma, a Holocaust survivor, died at the age of 94, DPA, quoted by Agerpres, reported on Saturday.
Ivan Klíma has died on Saturday morning, said his son Michal Klíma, for the Czech press agency CTK.
Three years in the Theresiestadt camp
The writer was born on September 14, 1931, under the name of Ivan Kauders. Since 1942, he has spent three years of childhood with his family in the Theresiestadt camp, because of his Jewish origins.
Klíma, however, described his relationship with Germany as “relaxed” when he received the Franz Kafka award in 2002, stressing that “The fact that SS spoke German cannot be reproached for the language.”.
After the Second World War, in communist Czechoslovakia, Klíma quickly became one of the most important authors, along with Milan Kundera and Bohumil Herbal.
Excluded from the communist party
Piece “Castle” brought Klíma’s reputation “Reformer of Czech dramaturgy ”However, in 1967, after denouncing in a public speech the abuses of power of the regime, he was excluded from the Communist Party.
He left for the United States after the reforming movement in Prague in the following year.
Ivan Klíma died on Saturday. Photo Capture YouTube Větrné Mlýny
Although Klíma returned to Prague after three years, his books could only be published abroad, due to the prohibition of publication in Czechoslovakia, which remained in force until 1989.
He has earned his existence by writing scenarios for animation films and working as a topograph, among others. The writer tried to capture the time of political changes in his 1993 novel, “Waiting for the Dark, Waning for the Light“(” Waiting for darkness, waiting for light “)
