About Jana Černá
Lived 1928 – 1981 (aged 52). Jana Černá was a Czech writer and poet.
Jana Černá (14 August 1928 – 5 January 1981), born Jana Krejcarová, called "Honza", was a Czech poet, writer, and editor of samizdat editions in Czechoslovakia. She was a daughter of the journalist Milena Jesenská (1896-1944) and architect Jaromír Krejcar (1895-1950). After the communist coup d'état of 1948 she started publishing with her friends Egon Bondy, and others in a secret underground edition Půlnoc. She was married 4 times and had 5 children. Černá died at the age of 52 in a car accident.
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Hrdinství je povinné (1964) Nebyly to moje děti... (1966) Adresát Milena Jesenská (1969) V zahrádce otce mého (1988) Clarissa a jiné texty (1990)
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Who was Jana Černá?
Czech writer and poet (1928–1981)
When was Jana Černá born?
Jana Černá was born on 14 August 1928 in Prague.
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Jana Černá died on 5 January 1981 in Prague.
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Jana Černá was a writer and poet.
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Jana Černá was Czech.
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