Jan Čarek

A funerary urn of Jan Čarek placed in the wall of his birthplace church in Heřmaň in South Bohemian Region.

Jan Čarek (29 December 1898, Heřmaň, Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic 27 March 1966, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a Czech poet, essayist, and literary critic. He was greatly popular in his day for his children's books a "rural" poetry.

Biography

From 1910 to 1918 he studied at the gymnasium in Písek. He was initially working as a railway clerk. Since 1946 he started his professional writer career.

Since the 1920s he regularly published his works in a number of Czech literary magazines. After 1948 he devoted himself almost exclusively to children's literature.

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