Jana Černá (14 August 1928, Prague – 5 January 1981, Prague), born Jana Krejcarová, called "Honza" was a Czech

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

, writer, and editor of samizdat editions in

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

. She was a daughter of the journalist

Milena Jesenská Milena Jesenská (; 10 August 1896 – 17 May 1944) was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. Early life Jesenská was born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic). Her family is believed to descend from Jan Jesenius, th ...

(1896-1944) and architect

Jaromír Krejcar Machnac 3

(25 July 1895, Hundsheim, Austria – 5 October 1950, London) was ...

(1895-1950). After the

communist coup d'état of 1948 Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a so ...

she started publishing with her friends

Egon Bondy Egon Bondy, born Zbyněk Fišer (20 January 1930 in Prague – 9 April 2007 in Bratislava), was a Czech philosopher, writer, and poet, one of the leading personalities of the Prague underground. In the late 1940s, Bondy was active in a surreal ...

, and others in a secret

underground Underground most commonly refers to: * Subterranea (geography), the regions beneath the surface of the Earth Underground may also refer to: Places * The Underground (Boston), a music club in the Allston neighborhood of Boston * The Underground (S ...

edition Půlnoc. She was married 4 times and had 5 children. Černá died at the age of 52 in a car accident.

Work

* ''Hrdinství je povinné'' (1964) * ''Nebyly to moje děti...'' (1966) * ''Adresát Milena Jesenská'' (1969) * ''V zahrádce otce mého'' (1988) * ''Clarissa a jiné texty'' (1990)

External links

*http://www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/showContent.jsp?docId=297
Clarissa a jiné texty Otisky duší
*Conference proceedings of �
Honza Krejcarová. Internationaler Workshop Wien
27. – 28.10.2016 VeranstalterInnen Dr. Matteo Colombi / GWZO LeipzigAss.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gertraude Zand / Universität Wien und der tschechische Underground.(Re-)Konstruktion eines Mythos," dedicated to her life and work in the journal ''Slovo a smysl / Word and Sense'' with contributions by Matteo Colombi, Natascha Drubek, Xavier Galmiche, Martin Machovec, Anna Militz, Josef Vojvodík, Peter Zajac, Gertraude Zand: 2017 (14) 28. https://wordandsense.ff.cuni.cz/en/magazin/2017-14-28-2/ 1928 births 1981 deaths Czech women writers Czech poets Czech anti-communists Surrealist poets Czech surrealist writers 20th-century poets Czech women poets 20th-century Czech women writers 20th-century Czech people Road incident deaths in Czechoslovakia {{CzechRepublic-writer-stub