Ivan Diviš (September 18, 1924, Prague – April 7, 1999, Prague) was a significant Czech poet and essayist of the 2nd half of the 20th century.
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He was born to a family of a bank officer. While he was studying at high school in Prague during World War II he was arrested by Gestapo and imprisoned in Pečkárna and Pankrác. Since 1942 he worked in a bookstore, and in the end of the war he was employed at V. Petr publisher. After passing maturita he studied philosophy and aesthetics at Charles University (1945–49). In the early 1950s he worked as a corrector at Communist Rudé právo newspaper. After 1953 he worked as a latheman in Liberec and Prague-Kbely. In the 1960s he was an editor of Mladá fronta publishing house. In 1964 he converted to be a Roman Catholic. After the Prague Spring reverse he emigrated to West Germany in 1969 and worked for Radio Free Europe. He lived in Munich.