A witness to a crazy century: remembering writer Ivan Klíma
6.10.2025 - 13:25
Czech writer, playwright and former dissident Ivan Klíma has died at the age of 94. One of the most widely translated Czech authors, he spent three and a half years of his childhood in the Terezín concentration camp. In the decades that followed, he joined the Communist Party, only to be expelled after the Soviet invasion.