Prose writer, novelist, translator (Russian), publicist Real name: Karel Krejčík In 1939, he was arrested along with other college students and taken to a concentration camp until 1940. Was active in a student resistance movement. After World War II, he became a political worker for the ÚV KSČ (Communist Party Central Committee), chief editor of Svoboda Publishing. He was also a professional writer, a chief editor of the magazine Květy and an ambassador in Brazil. He wrote poems as well as prose, the main theme being social, political and generational transitions.