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Ota Filip
Ota Filip, photo by Ota Filip, 1997
Ota Filip, photo by Ota Filip, 1997
Born(1930-03-09)9 March 1930
Ostrava, Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic)
Died2 March 2018(2018-03-02) (aged 87)
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
OccupationNovelist, Journalist, Essayist, Translator
NationalityGerman
GenreFiction, non-fiction, satire, essay, literature, political commentary, social commentary, literary criticism
Spouse
Marie Ledvinová
(m. 1953)
ChildrenPavel, Hana

Ota Filip (9 March 1930 – 2 March 2018)[1] was a Czech novelist and journalist. He wrote in both German and Czech.

Life

Filip was born in Slezská Ostrava, in present-day Czech Republic. His novels have been translated into French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, and Slovenian. During the communist era government of Czechoslovakia his works were banned or censored by the authorities, and after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact Armed Forces in 1968, he was sentenced for his dissident activities, and incarcerated from 1969–70. In 1974, he was forced to emigrate to West Germany.[2]

Since 1975, he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Munich, Germany.

Filip was awarded a number of literary awards in the Czech Republic and Germany, including the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize for German writing by a non-native German speaker.[3]

On 28 October 2012, Ota Filip was awarded the National Medal of Merit in Fine Arts, a merit awarded to distinguished Czech artists by the Czech government on the occasion of the anniversary of the founding of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918.[4]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ "Zemřel přední český exilový spisovatel Ota Filip. Podívejte se na jeho poslední rozhovor pro Reflex - Reflex.cz".
  2. ^ "Slovník české literatury". Slovnikceskeliteratury.cz. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  3. ^ "Adelbert von Chamisso Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung". Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  4. ^ "Radio Prague - Václav Klaus awards state honors for the last time as president". Radio.cz. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2012.

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