Věra Linhartová, pioneer of Czech experimental prose, dies at 88

Czech poet, writer and art theorist Věra Linhartová, regarded as the founder of Czech experimental prose, has died in Paris at the age of 88. Her death was announced on Saturday.

Linhartová emerged as one of the leading voices of Czech experimental literature in the 1960s before leaving Czechoslovakia for France after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. She went on to publish exclusively in French and also worked as an art historian and curator, including at Paris's Guimet Museum.

In 1998, she received the Jaroslav Seifert Prize, one of Czechia's most prestigious literary awards, for her collection of French-language prose Mes oubliettes.