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Zbyněk Hejda (2 February 1930,Hradec Králové – 16 November 2013,Prague[1]) was aCzechpoet, essayist and translator (mainly from English -Emily Dickinson; and German -Georg Trakl,Gottfried Benn).[2]
He studiedphilosophy andhistory at theFaculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.[3] From 1953 to 1958, he taught the history of theCommunist Party of Czechoslovakia at the Faculty of Arts.[3] From 1958 to 1968, he worked at the Prague Information Service, and later in 1968 he started working in a publishing house but left the very same year together with the whole editorial staff.[3] From 1968 to 1978 he worked in a second hand bookshop, until he signed theCharter 77 and was forced to leave.[3] From 1981 to 1989 he worked as acaretaker.[3] Since 1990 to 1995 he taught cultural anthropology at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine,Charles University.[3]
Since 1959 he published his poetry in literary magazines, includingRevolver Revue, in the Czechoslovak Republic, and in Czech exile magazines, such as Svědectví published byPavel Tigrid inParis.[3] He received TheTom Stoppard Prize for his essays in 1989[2] and theJaroslav Seifert Prize in 1996.[4]
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