Ludvík Aškenazy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ludvík Aškenazy

Czech playwright, publicist, scriptwriter and writer

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1921

Place of Birth: Český Těšín, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 18-Mar-1986

Profession: writer, playwright, journalist, science fiction writer

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Ludvík Aškenazy (24 February 1921 in Ceský Tešín – 18 March 1986 in Bolzano, Italy) was a Czech writer and journalist.
He was born into a Jewish family in Sachsenberg, part of Ceský Tešín. He studied Slavonic philology in Lviv, which then was a part of Poland. During World War II, he was a soldier in the Czech units of the Soviet Army in the Soviet Union.
He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
Between 1945 and 1950 he worked in the state Czechoslovak Radio and after that he became government-sanctioned "writer." After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he left for exile and until 1976 lived in Munich.
Between 1976 and 1986, he lived in the Italian town of Bolzano with his wife, Leonie Mann, daughter of the German writer Heinrich Mann.He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1977.