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Ivan Wernisch (born 18 June 1942) is aCzechpoet,editor and acollage artist. He studied Ceramics Secondary school inCarlsbad (he left in 1959) and has since done many jobs, mostly manual. In 1961, after publishing his debutpoetrybook, he quickly established himself as one of the best and most loved writers of his generation. During the 70s and 80s he prepared manyradio shows about famous poets of the world (in which he often – true to his interest in mystifications – wrote many of the poems himself), but his books could not be published officially. After theVelvet revolution he worked in a newspaper. Now he works as an editor in the Current Czech Poetry Library. He is also a renowned translator fromGerman,Dutch,Italian,Latin, French andRussian. His work as aneditor is focused mainly on forgotten Czech poets of the last three centuries. Another Czech poet, Ewald Murrer, is his son. Ivan Wernisch lives inPrague.
After his first couple of books, which were rather playful, his poetry began to turn into more dreamy and also absurd one. His poems, full of great imagery based onneologisms, absurd landscapes and mis-quoting other writers, become increasingly sad, if not tragic, with each new book since 1989. His influences include bothdadaism andexpressionism.
His books were published in translations in Germany, Italy,Ukraine,Poland and United States. He was awarded the Seifert Prize and Premio Capri and the Franz Kafka Prize.
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