Petr Kabeš (21 June 1941 in Pardubice – 9 July 2005 in

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) was a Czech poet.

Biography

Kabeš was born in Pardubice and studied at the

Prague University of Economics and Business The Prague University of Economics and Business (PUEB) (originally: ''the University of Economics, Prague''; '' cs, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, VŠE'') is a triple crown accredited economics and business-oriented public university loc ...

. He published his first collection ''Čáry na dlani'' in 1961. Two more books followed: ''Zahrady na boso'' (1963) and ''Mrtvá sezona'' (1968). His next collection ''Odklad krajiny'' was made in 1970 but the entire print was destroyed before release and Kabeš was subsequently banned until 1989. During the years of the publication ban, he worked as a weather observer at Milešovka and night watchman. He was a signatory of

Charter 77 Charter 77 (''Charta 77'' in Czech and Slovak) was an informal civic initiative in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977. Founding members and architects were Jiří Něm ...

. In 1995, he was awarded the

Jaroslav Seifert Prize The Jaroslav Seifert Prize (Czech: Cena Jaroslava Seiferta) is a prestigious Czech literary prize created by the Charta 77 Foundation in Stockholm in January 1986. This prize is named after the Nobel Prize–winning Czechoslovak writer, poet and j ...

, presented by the , for his book ''Pěší věc''. He received the Czech State Award for Literature for ''Těžítka, ta těžítka'' in 2003. He was married to translator Anna Kareninová. He died in Prague at the age of 64.

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