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Jiří Stránský (12 August 1931 – 29 May 2019) was a Czech author, playwright, translator, political prisoner during the country's communist regime, and human rights activist.

In 1953, he was arrested by the communists and sentenced to eight years of forced labor for "treason". He was released in 1960. In 1974, he was arrested again and sentenced to another 3 to 5 years, but was released after one and a half.

After the fall of the communist regime, he was an author and head of the international section of the Czech Literary Fund. In 1992, he was elected President of the Czech section of International PEN. He was chairman of the council of the National Library from 1995 to 1998.

He was a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.^[1]

Stránský died on 29 May 2019 at the age of 87.^[2]

Works

Za plotem, written in prison (1953–1960), published 1999
Štěstí, 1969, most copies were confiscated and destroyed by the communists, it was released in 1990
Zdivočelá země, 1970, made into a film in 1997
Aukce, 1997, sequel Zdivočelé země, 1989
Přelet, 2001
Povídačky pro moje slunce, 2002
Tichá pošta, 2002
Povídačky pro Klárku, 2004
Perlorodky, 2005
Srdcerváč, 2005
Stařec a smrt, 2007

Short stories

Náhoda, 1976
Vánoce, 1976
Přelet, 1976
Oblouk, 2009
Dopisy bez hranic (Lasica, Stránský), 2010

Films based on his work

Bumerang, 1996, directed by Hynek Bočan
Zdivočelá země, 1997
Zdivočelá země, series 1997–2001, directed by Hynek Bočan
Uniforma, 2001, directed by Hynek Bočan
Žabák, 2001, directed by Hynek Bočan
Kousek nebe, 2005, directed by Petr Nikolaev

References

↑ "Prague Declaration - Declaration Text". Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism. 3 June 2008. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
↑ televize, Česká. "Zemřel spisovatel Jiří Stránský, tvůrce Zdivočelé země". ČT24 - Česká televize (in Czech). Retrieved 2019-05-29.

Other websites

Jiří Stránský on IMDb

[1] "Prague Declaration - Declaration Text". Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism. 3 June 2008. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2010.

[2] televize, Česká. "Zemřel spisovatel Jiří Stránský, tvůrce Zdivočelé země". ČT24 - Česká televize (in Czech). Retrieved 2019-05-29.

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