Photo: David Konečný, ČTK
Czech writer, playwright and former dissident Ivan Klíma has died at the age of 94. One of the most widely translated Czech authors, he spent three and a half years of his childhood in the Terezín concentration camp. In the decades that followed, he joined the Communist Party, only to be expelled after the Soviet invasion.
Ivan Klíma was born in Prague in 1931 as Ivan Kauders.
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Author: Ruth Fraňková