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

Biography

Šiktanc was born in

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. 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

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and

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into Czech and wrote dozens of television screenplays. He died in

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at the age of 93.

Awards

In 2000, he received the Czech State Award for Literature 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

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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.

References

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