Karel Šiktanc (10 July 1928 – 26 December 2021) was a Czech poet and children's writer.

Biography

Šiktanc was born in

Hřebeč Hřebeč is a municipality and village in Kladno District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,200 inhabitants. Administrative parts The village of Netřeby is an administrative part of Hřebeč. Etymology The name ...

Kladno District Kladno District ( cs, okres Kladno) is a district ('' okres'') within the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. The capital of the district is the city of Kladno. List of municipalities Běleč - Běloky - Beřovice - Bílichov - Ble ...

. He published his first poetry collection ''Tobě, živote!,'' in 1951. Over the next seven decades, he published dozens of other collections of poetry, as well as many children's books. He also translated works by

Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; rus, Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, p=bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pa ...

Boris Slutsky Boris Slutsky (russian: Бори́с Абра́мович Слу́цкий; 7 May 1919 in Slovyansk, Ukraine – 23 February 1986 in Tula, Russia, Tula) was a Soviet Union, Soviet poet. Biography Slutsky was born in Sloviansk in 1919. He grew ...

and Yevgeny Yevtushenko into Czech and wrote dozens of television screenplays. He died in Prague at the age of 93.

Awards

In 2000, he received the

Czech State Award for Literature The Czech State Award for Literature ( cs, Státní cena za literaturu) is an award given by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The Czech State Award for Literature is awarded for an original literary work in Czech published during the p ...

for his poetry collection ''Šarlat'' (1999). He is a two-time winner of the Jaroslav Seifert Prize for his collections ''Srdce svého nejez'' (1989) and ''Nesmír'' (2011). He won the

Magnesia Litera Magnesia Litera is an annual book award held in the Czech Republic since 2002. The prize covers all literary genres in eight genre categories: prose, poetry, children's book (since 2004), non-fiction, essay/journalism (since 2007), translation, pu ...

award for ''Zimoviště'' in 2004 and was nominated for the same prize for ''Nesmír'' in 2011. In 2010, he received the Czech

Medal of Merit Several countries award a military or civil medal called Medal of Merit: * Medal of Merit (Czech Republic) * Medal of Merit (Denmark) * Medal of Merit of the Dominican Woman * Medal of Merit of the National People's Army (East Germany) * Medal of M ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Siktanc, Karel 1928 births 2021 deaths People from Kladno District Czech children's writers 20th-century Czech poets Czech male poets Czech-language writers Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic)