Václav Renč

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Václav Renč (28 November 1911, Vodochody – 30 April 1973, Brno) was a Czech poet, dramatist and translator. Like other catholic ruralistic writers, his themes included God, traditions and the countryside.

He graduated from the Collage of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague in 1936. He edited the journal Rozhledy po literatuře (Czech Views over literature) together with František Halas (between 1933 – 1936). Then he worked as an editor at several journals (Akord, Obnova and Řád), later as a publishing editor. He was also a dramaturgist in Olomouc theater (1945 – 1948) and in Zemské divadlo theater in Brno in 1947.

After the 1948 communist coup in Czechoslovakia he and other catholic writers were hated by the regime. In 1951 Renč was arrested and in 1952 he was condemned to 25 years of prison without any evidence. He was released in 1962, rehabilitated in 1968. He became dramaturg operetta dramaturgist in Olomouc in 1969.

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Jitření, 1933
Studánky, 1935
Sedmihradská zem, 1937
Vinný lis, 1938
Trojzpěvy, 1940
Marnotratný syn, 1942
Císařův mim, 1944
Barbora Celská, 1948 drama
Tom Sawyer od řeky Mississippi, 1964, stage play for children based on novel by Mark Twain.
Královské vraždění: Polonius, tragická komedie o pěti dějstvích, 1967
Hoře z návratu: Dramatická báseň o dvou dílech, 1969
Popelka Nazaretská, 1969
Setkání s Minotaurem, 1969 lyrical poems written in years 1963 – 1967
Skřivaní věž, 1970 poems written in prison
Pražská legenda, 1974
Sluncem oděná, 1979
České žalmy, 1989
Perníková chaloupka, 1990
Kůzlátka a hloupý vlk, 1992 fairy tales
Loretánské světlo, 1992
Podoben větru, 1994 summary of poetry
S anděly si nelze připíjet, 2000
Vrstvení achátu, 2000