Jiří Gruša
1938
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2011
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Germany, Czech Republic, West Germany, Czechoslovakia
native language: Czech
educated at: Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
occupation: dramaturge, poet, diplomat, translator, children's writer, writer, politician, literary critic, philosopher, playwright, ambassador, contributing editor, education minister
award received: Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Grand Officer of the Order of Honour (Lower Austria), Knight of the Legion of Honour, Litera za poezii, Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, Andreas Gryphius Prize, USTR Prize for Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights, Goethe Medal, City of Brno Award, Manès-Sperber-Preis, Jaroslav Seifert Prize, participant in the resistance and resistance against communism, Cena Egona Hostovského
position held: president, Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Germany
official website: www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/showContent.jsp?docId=1230
Jiří Gruša (10 November 1938, in Pardubice – 28 October 2011, in Bad Oeynhausen) was a Czech poet, novelist, translator, diplomat and politician. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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