Ota Filip

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This article is on the Czech novelist, there is a minor actor by the name Ota Filip who is not the same person

Ota Filip (born 1930 in Ostrau, in the present-day Czech Republic), is a Czech-German novelist and journalist. He has written in both German and Czech. His novels have also been translated into French, Italian, Spanish and Polish. During the communist era government of Czechoslovakia his works were banned or censored by the authorities, and this has been cited as the reason that he moved to Germany in 1974.

Ota Filip's work is cited as focusing on the themes of the migrant or dislocated individual by critics such as Dorothea Uhle.

He has been awarded the The Adelbert von Chamisso-Preis for German writing by a non-native German speaker.

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