Jiří Gruša a Mezinárodní PEN klub
Jiří Gruša and the PEN International
Author(s): Romana Dominika HrbatováSubject(s): Cultural history, Political history, Czech Literature, Politics and society, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: Památník národního písemnictví
Keywords: Jiří Gruša; PEN International; censorship; emigration; Czech author; Czechoslovak and Czech ambassador to Austria and Germany; The Questionnaire (novel)
Summary/Abstract: From 2004 to 2009, the Czech author, diplomat, and translator Jiří Gruša served as President of the PEN International. The basic material on which this article draws is his complete personal collection housed in the Anti-Totalitarian Cultural History Department (Oddělení dějin kultury antitotalitního zaměření – ODKAZ) in the Moravian Museum in Brno, which includes materials on his time as President of the PEN International. This article maps Gruša’s professional development and, based on his personal experiences with literary and translation activity, with censorship, with imprisonment, and with being forcibly expelled from his native country, as well as on his many years of diplomatic service, points out what was certainly his beneficial, important, initial potential for performing as President of the PEN International, which defends freedom of speech for writers all over the world.
Journal: Literární archiv
- Issue Year: 2025
- Issue No: 57
- Page Range: 131-149
- Page Count: 20
- Language: Czech
