Jiřina Hauková

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Jiřina Hauková (January 27, 1919, Přerov – December 15, 2005) was a Czech poet and translator. She was a member of the Group 42 (Skupina 42), together with her husband Jindřich Chalupecký.

Biography

Having graduated from a grammar school in 1939, she started to study philosophy in Brno, where she stayed until the Nazi occupants closed all universities. After that she worked as an editor in Obzor (The Horizon) in Přerov. She finished her studies in 1949 at the Charles University in Prague. Until 1950, when she started career as a professional writer, she worked for the Ministry of Information. After 1968 she was banned to publish and some of her works were published abroad. Apart from her own books of poetry, she was a celebrated translator from English. She translated The Waste Land (together with her husband) in 1947, and also books by Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, Emily Dickinson or Dylan Thomas. In 1996 she received, together with the poet Zbyněk Hejda, the prestigious Jaroslav Seifert Award for the outstanding lifetime contribution to the Czech literature.

Bibliography

Poetry

Přísluní, 1943
Cizí pokoj, 1946
Oheň ve sněhu, 1958
Rozvodí času, 1970
Spodní proudy, abroad 1988, in the Czech republic 1992
Motýl a smrt, 1990
Světlo září, 1995
Mozaika z vedřin, 1997
Básně, 2000 (Collected Poems)
Večerní prška, 2002

Memoirs

Záblesky života, 1996

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 10002558 LCCN: nr91027188 ISNI: 0000 0000 6308 6447 GND: 103371877 BNF: cb13495744w NKC: jk01040170

Persondata
Name	Haukova, Jirina
Alternative names
Short description	Czech writer
Date of birth	January 27, 1919
Place of birth
Date of death	December 15, 2005
Place of death

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