Jan Čep, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jan Čep

Czech essayist, publicist, religion writer, publicist, translator and writer

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1902

Place of Birth: Myslechovice, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 25-Jan-1973

Profession: writer, translator, journalist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Jan Čep

  • Jan Cep (1902–1974) was a Czech writer and translator.
  • He was born in 1902 in the village of Myslechovice (now a part of Litovel), Moravia to a family of peasants.
  • After completing his studies at the Gymnasium in Litovel, from 1922 to 1926 he studied Czech, English and French linguistics at Prague University.
  • In 1926, he joined Josef Florian's Christian community in Stará Ríše and worked in its publishing house as a translator.
  • After later having been seduced by Florian's elder sister, he returned to Prague and worked as a translator for the publishing houses Melantrich and Symposion.
  • After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, he returned to his native village and led a solitary life out of politics and public life.
  • He only corresponded with his best friend, the poet Jan Zahradnícek (their correspondence was published in the 1990s as a book) and made visits to a Dominican cloister in Olomouc to see his other friend, a monk, theologian and literature critic named Silvestr Maria Braito.
  • After the end of World War II he returned to Prague and worked as an editor in the Vyšehrad publishing house.
  • After the communist takeover in 1948, Jan fled into exile and lived in France.
  • His friends that stayed, such as Jan Zahradnícek, were subjected to cruel persecution.
  • The poet Zahradnícek was sentenced to 13 years of prison for his "anti-socialistic thinking" and died a few weeks after being released from prison in the 1960s.
  • In exile, Jan Cep lived in Paris (1948-1951) and in Munich (1951-1954) where he became a commentator in the Czech section of Radio Free Europe.
  • In 1954, he returned to Paris, married, and became an essayist and free journalist.
  • He died in exile in 1974 in Paris.

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