About Herma Svozilová-Johnová
Lived 1914 – 2009 (aged 94). Herma Svozilová-Johnová was a Czech writer, poet, journalist, prose writer and children's writer.
Herma Svozilová-Johnová (29 August 1914 – 5 April 2009) was a Czechoslovak writer.
The daughter of an attorney, she was born Herma Svozilová in Prostějov and attended grammar school there. Her paternal grandfather was . She continued her studies at the lyceum in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and at the French grammar school in Prague. She went on to study journalism at the and also studied at Oxford. After her marriage to who served as mayor of Prostějov from 1937 to 1939, she returned to Prostějov. There, she was cultural editor for Hlasu lidu. In 1948, the couple moved to Prague.
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Czech writer (1914-2009)
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Herma Svozilová-Johnová was born on 29 August 1914 in Prostějov.
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Herma Svozilová-Johnová died on 5 April 2009 in Prague.
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Herma Svozilová-Johnová was a writer, poet, journalist, prose writer and children's writer.
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Herma Svozilová-Johnová was Czech.
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