Kamil Bednář

Kamil Bednář (4 July 1912 – 23 May 1972), also known by his pen name "Prokop Kouba", was a Czech poet, translator, prose writer, dramatist and publishing house editor.

Life

Bednář was born in Prague. After 1931, he studied law, and then six years of philosophy in Charles University. After he finished his studies in 1939, he worked in the publishing house Melantrich, from 1949 in the publishing house Československý spisovatel. Since 1959 he dedicated himself only to the literature.

He was founder of the literary group Ohnice (jointed charlock)[1] and Pevný bod as well as author of poems, prose writings, essays, fairy tales and numerous translations from different languages. He died, aged 59, in Mělník.

Works

Books
  • Kouzlení a cesty doktora Fausta
  • O Faustovi, Markétce a ďáblu
  • Zuzanka a mořeplavci na Vltavě
  • Kamenný palác
  • Veliký mrtvý

Translations

German-language publications
  • Mr. Korbes
  • Swan lake
  • Small animals, large animals
gollark: Surely language parsing is not *as* complex as massively hard maths problems.
gollark: 3.7 hard.
gollark: Latin grammar isn't *that* horrible. It just has somewhat more flexible word order than, say, English, and also a lot of random suffixes and stuff.
gollark: Revised version is up. You may need to refresh the page a bit to see it. I've tried to keep the content basically the same.
gollark: Anyway, based on feedback from here and [REDACTED], I'm trying to improve the text a bit, trim it down and make it fit better with the "osmarks.tk style".

References
  1. ed. Věra Menclová, Václav Vaněk (2005). Slovník českých spisovatelů (in Czech). Prague: Libri. p. 63. ISBN 80-7277-179-5.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
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