Poeta tragico

Date of Birth:	September 16, 1905
Place of Birth:	Prague, Holešovice-Bubny
Date of Death	March 31, 1980

Vladimír Holan (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvlaɟɪmiːr ˈɦolan]) (1905 - 1980) was a Czech poet famous for employing obscure language, dark topics and pessimist views in his poems. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in the late 1960s. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

Holan was born in Prague, but he spent most of his childhood outside the Capital. When he moved back in the 1920s he studied law and started a job as a clerk, a position that was a large source of dissatisfaction for the poet. He lost his father and in 1932 married Věra Pilařová. In the same year he published the collection of poems Vanutí (Breezing), which he considered his first piece of poetic art (there were two books preceding it: Blouznivý vějíř /1926/ and Triumf smrti /1930/). It was his only collection to be reviewed by the knight of Czech critics, František Xaver Šalda, who compared Holan favorably with the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé.

In the 1930s Holan continued writing obscure lyrical poetry and slowly started to express his political feelings (reacting to the Spanish Civil War at first). Political poems Odpověď Francii (The Reply to France), Září 1938 (September 1938) and Zpěv tříkrálový (Twelfth Night Song) were reactions to the situation in Czechoslovakia from September 1938 till March 1939. They also made him more intelligible and popular. The poem called Sen (The Dream) is a presage of a cruel war (amazingly published in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in April 1939). During the war he published several poetic stories in verse inspired by national humiliation. After the war he published an apocalyptic record of events in his Panychida and chanted about the Red Army in Tobě (To You), Rudoarmějci (Red Army Soldiers) and Dík Sovětskému svazu (Thanks to the Soviet Union). He left the Catholic Church and became a member of the Communist Party.

In 1949 after the communist takeover he was involved in an incident against Soviet influence in the new regime and his work was on the index of Czech literature. He left the Communist Party and reentered the Catholic Church. In the last years of his life he lived in reclusive poverty in the very heart of Prague on the island of Kampa.

In the 1950s and 1960s he wrote longer poems with a mixture of reality and lyrical abstraction. He is best known in English for his postwar works, both the often teasingly obscure longer poem Noc s Hamletem (A Night with Hamlet, 1964) which became the most often translated Czech poem^[1], and his short, gnomic lyrical reflections, with occasional submerged notes of political protest. He became a legendary poet-recluse.

He had a daughter Kateřina born in 1949 in his bad years and in addition to the social problems she suffered from Down's syndrome (he wrote a poem called Bajaja for her which is with Jaroslav Seifert's Maminka one of the basic Czech children poetical works of Czech modern literature - also illustrated by Jiří Trnka. When she died in 1977, Holan lost the sense of life and ceased writing. He died in a Kampa flat in 1980 and was buried in Olšany Cemetery.

A Night with Hamlet (first lines, English translation)

In transition from nature to existence,

walls are rather unkind,

walls wet from the urine of talents, walls bespattered

by eunuchs revolting against the spirit, walls not diminished

even though they may not yet be born,

and still walls already rounding out the fruit of the womb...

References and external links[link]

1. ^ Jiří Rulf, Vladimír Holan

• Holan's biography (source for this article)
• 9 poems in English
• Persian Tranlsation of A Night with Hamlet
• A website dedicated to Holan's poetry in Persian

Holan
—  Village  —
Holan Location in Sør-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 62°31′51″N 09°37′19″E / 62.53083°N 9.62194°E / 62.53083; 9.62194Coordinates: 62°31′51″N 09°37′19″E / 62.53083°N 9.62194°E / 62.53083; 9.62194
Country	Norway
Region	Trøndelag
County	Sør-Trøndelag
District	Dovre Region
Municipality	Oppdal
Elevation[1]	560 m (1,840 ft)
Time zone	CET (UTC+01:00)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+02:00)
Post Code	7345 Driva

Holan is a small village in the municipality of Oppdal in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the European route E6 highway and along the river Driva. It is about 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) south of the municipal center of Oppdal and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Kongsvoll.

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Clara Janés Nadal, born in Barcelona (6 November 1940),^[1] is a Spanish poet, writer and translator. She is regarded as one of the great love poets of contemporary Spanish literature, a designation given her by one of twentieth century Spain's most respected women writers, Rosa Chacel.^[2] Janés's works often employ mystical language and interior explorations in an effort to find union with the "other."

She studied Philology in Barcelona and in Pamplona, where she completed her bachelor's degree, and she received the Maître des lettres from the University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne in comparative literature.^[1]

Janés employs multiple genres (poetry, narrative, essay, anthology, translation, photography and music), and her work includes diverse cultural and linguistic facets. She has translated Turkish, Czech, English, Chinese, Persian, Arabic and French authors, and she has explored ancient religious traditions from many cultures. Her work includes translations of the Czech poets Vladimír Holan and Jaroslav Seifert.^[1] She has also translated works by Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute, Katherine Mansfield , William Golding, Ahmad Shamlou, Forough Farrokhzad and Mohsen Emadi.^[2] When she translates works from Turkish, Persian, Chinese and Arabic, she is generally assisted by speakers of these languages, which lends her poetic and translation activity a collaborative aspect that corresponds with her interest in connecting with "others". In 1992, she won the Turkish Tutav Foundation Prize for her work with translation. In 1997 she received the Premio Nacional a la obra de un traductor for her translations of Eastern and Central European writers. In 2000, she received the First Category Medal from the Czech Republic. She has participated in several literature gatherings and her works have been translated to more 20 languages. In 1998 she won Premio Internacional de Poesía Ciudad de Melilla for Arcángel de sombra.

Works[link]

• Isla del suicidio. Poetry.
• Las estrellas vencidas, 1964. Poetry.
• La noche de Abel Micheli,1965. Novel.
• Desintegración, 1969. Novel.
• La vida callada de Federico Monpou, 1972. Biography.
• Tentativa de encuentro y tentativa de olvido, 1972.
• Límite humano, 1973. Poetry.
• Aprender a envejecer, 1973. Essay.
• Poemas Rumanos, 1973. Poetry.
• En busca de Cordelia y Poemas rumanos, 1975. Poetry.
• Cartas a Adriana, 1976. Novel.
• Antología personal (1959-1979). , 1979. Poetry.
• Libro de alienaciones, 1980. Poetry.
• Sendas de Rumanía, 1981. Novel.
• Eros, 1981. Poetry.
• Pureza canelo, 1981. Biography.
• Tentativa de olvido, 1982. Tales.
• Roig, Montserrat. Before the civil war, 1982. Tales.
• Pessarrodona, Marta. La búsqueda de Elizabeth, 1982. Tales.
• Vivir, 1983. Poetry.
• Fósiles, 1985. Poetry.
• Kampa : poesía, música y voz, 1986. Poetry.
• Las primeras poetisas en lengua castellana, 1986. Poetry.
• Federico Mompou : vida, textos y documentos, 1987. Essay.
• Lapidario, 1988. Poetry.
• Creciente fértil, 1989. Poetry.
• Los caballos del sueño, 1989. Novel.
• Jardín y laberinto, 1990. Biography.
• Esbozos, 1990. Poetry.
• El hombre de Adén, 1991. Novel.
• Emblemas, 1991. Poetry.
• Espejismos, 1991. Novel.
• Las palabras de la tribu: escritura y habla, 1993. Essay.
• Rosas de fuego, 1996. Poetry.
• Cirlot, el no mundo y la poesía imaginal, 1996. Essay.
• Diván del ópalo de fuego, 1996. Poetry.
• Espejos de agua, 1997. Tales.
• El persa. Cuento. Tales.
• Arcángel de sombra, 2000. Poetry

References[link]

External links[link]

• Persian Translation of Clara Janes
• Panther's Night, Clara Janes, Translated by Mohsen Emadi
• Clara Janes page at Amediavoz

Jindřich Štreit in 2007.

Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946, Vsetín) is a Czech photographer and pedagogue known for his documentary photography. He focuses on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. He is considered one of the most important exponents of the Czech documentary photography.^[1]

Biography[link]

Štreit began taking photographs in 1964, during his studies at the Pedagogical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc. Following his graduation he worked as a teacher in Rýmařov; later he became director of the school in Sovinec and Jiříkov.^[2] In addition to his profession, Štreit actively participated in public life. As a local chronicler he documented the everyday events and life of Czech villages under the communist regime. The photography theorist Antonín Dufek identified him as "a continuator of the tradition of old village teachers, propagators of culture and progress".^[3]

From the 1980s, Jindřich Štreit regularly organizes exhibitions, concerts and theatrical performances at the Sovinec Castle.^[4] The photographer is sometimes nicknamed 'Jindra from Sovinec'.^[5]

In the late 1970s, Štreit's approach to photography began to change. He studied at the Institut výtvarné fotografie (Institute of Art Photography) in Brno, led by K. O. Hrubý and Antonín Hinšt.^[2] He graduated from the Institute with a cycle of theatrical photography. At the same time he continued in expanding his cycle of everyday life of the villages in the foothills of the Jeseníky Mountains. Additionally, he helped organize cultural life in the region; he participated in organizing exhibitions and concerts.

In 1981, during the general elections in the former Czechoslovakia, Štreit documented the official course of the elections. In some of his photographs made during the meetings of the local authorities, the portrait of the President of Czechoslovakia appeared on photographs in very "unlikely and absurd places".^[2] A year later, in June 1982, Štreit agreed to display his works at the exhibition Setkání (The Meeting) organized in Prague by the graphic artist Alena Kučerová. After several hours, the exhibition was banned by the state police and Štreit was arrested and accused of defamation of the President and the country.^[6] He was sentenced to ten months' imprisonment with a suspended sentence of two years.^[2] As a consequence, he lost his job and was forced to earn living at a state farm in Rýžoviště. He was banned from taking photographs, but he never respected the ban and returned to photography immediately after his release from the prison.^[2] The photography theorist Anna Fárová managed to include his works in the exhibition 9 + 9, visited by Henri Cartier-Bresson, who documented Štreit's installation and published his photos in the French newspaper Le Monde.^[2]

In 1989, after the Velvet Revolution and subsequent democratization of Czech society, Štreit was rehabilitated and allowed to take photographs without limitations. In 2009, he was named Professor of Applied Arts by the President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus.^[7] As of 2010, Štreit works as a teacher at the Institut tvůrčí fotografie (Institute of Creative Photography of Silesian University in Opava).^[8]

Selected exhibitions[link]

1990

• Sovinec. Side Gallery, Newcastle^[9][10]

2002

• Lidé z kraje písku. City Gallery, Pécs; Muvészetek Háza, Eger (both Hungary)
• Katholische Akademie, Munich (together with Adriena Šimotová)
• Vesnice je svět. Prospekto Fotografijos Galerija, Vilnius; Fujifilm Fotografijos Galerija, Kaunas (both Lithuania)
• Jindřich Štreit: Dans le cadre de Bohemia Magica, Le Château d'Eau, Toulouse^[11]
• Mezi námi. Cesty života. Brána naděje, Prague
• Fotografie. Gallery Langův dům, Frýdek-Místek (Czech Republic)
• Za oponou. National Museum, Prague
• Fotografie z kraje písku. New Town Hall, Prague
• Jindřich Štreit-Tvorivé dielne na Slovensku. Czech Centre, Bratislava

2003

• Cesta ke svobodě. Theatre Ludus, Bratislava
• Cesta ke svobodě. Czabai IFIHAZ, Békéscsaba (Hungary)
• Cesta ke svobodě. Theatre Baj Pomorski, Toruń (Poland)
• Lidé olomouckého okresu. Kulturplatz, Münsingen (Switzerland)
• Daleko od domova. Czech Centre, Novorosijsk, Moscow
• Beziehungen. Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin^[11]
• Das Tschechische Dorf. Tschechisches Zentrum / Czechpoint, Berlin^[11]
• Interpretace. Gallery Caesar, Olomouc (Czech Republic)
• Úcta k životu. Church of St. Cyril and Methodius, Přerov (Czech Republic)
• Svět dětí. Gallery Auritius, Tábor (Czech Republic)
• Cesty života. Gallery Perseus, Olomouc
• Viděno srdcem. Olomouc
• Lidé mého kraje. Museum in Bruntál, Bruntál

2004

• Lidé z kraje písku. Hungarian Cultural Centre, Helsinki
• Vztahy. Czech Centre, Dresden; Palais für aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt (Germany); Neumünster (Germany)
• Lidé ledkových dolů. Maison de l'Alsace, Paris
• The Village is a Global World. Side Gallery, Newcastle^[10]
• Mezi námi. Gallery Měsíc ve dne, České Budějovice (Czech Republic)
• Život na zámku. Gallery Patro, Olomouc (Czech Republic)
• Tak blízko, tak daleko. M.E.C.C.A., Terezín (Czech Republic)
• Tak blízko, tak daleko. Theatre, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
• Tváře za zdí. Gallery of Critics, Prague
• Lidé mého kraje. Gallery Fiducia, Ostrava; Prague

2005

• Jindřich Štreit. Blue Sky Gallery, Portland^[11]
• Ein tschechisches Universum, Gallery Fotoforum, Innsbruck^[11]
• Čzech Universum. Photogallery, Bolzano (Italy)
• Jindřich Štreit. Photo-Forum, Bozano^[11]
• Jindřich Štreit. Gallery of the Parliament of Lithuania, Vilnius
• So near and yet so far: Photographs from Chechnya and Ingushia. Gallery Vapriikki, Tampere (Finland)^[11]
• Tak blízko, tak daleko. Museum Kampa, Prague
• Vztahy. Gallery 4, Cheb (Czech Republic)
• Cesta k člověku. Minorites Monastery, Opava (Czech Republic)
• Fotografie J. Štreita ze sbírky Moravské galerie. Moravian Gallery, Brno^[11]

2006

• Vztahy. Gallery ZPAP Pryzmat, Kraków
• Jindřich Štreit. Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała (Poland)
• Sovinec. Centrum Kultury Zamek, Galeria Fotografii PF, Poznań^[11]
• Jindřich Štreit. European Parliament, Brussels
• Jindřich Štreit. Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
• Jindřich Štreit. House of Arts, Ostrava (Czech Republic)
• Jindřich Štreit: Fotografie, které mám rád. Museum of Ostrava, Ostrava
• Jindřich Štreit. Orlická galerie, Rychnov nad Kněžnou (Czech Republic)
• Vzpomínky. Malá galerie, Kladno (Czech Republic)
• Jindřich Štreit. Castle, Sovinec (Czech Republic)
• Jindřich Štreit. Gallery Zdeněk Sklenář, Prague

2008

• Das Dorf ist eine Welt. Fotografien. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Wörlen, Passau (Germany)^[11]

Books and exhibition catalogues[link]

• Birgus, Vladimír. Jindřich Štreit: Fotografie. Bruntál, 1980.
• 14 regards sur le district de Saint-Quentin. 1992. ISBN 80-85491-27-3.
• Vesnice Je Svet / The Village Is a Global World / Das Dorf Ist Eine Globale Welt / Un village, c'est tout en monde. Arcadia, 1993. ISBN 80-901423-5-4.
• Der Hof: Vom Leben am Lande. ISBN 3-85252-067-3. With Manfred Chobot.
• Štreit, Jindřich. Japonsko: Lidé z Akagi / 日本　赤城村からの人々. Opava, Rychnov n.Kn., 1996. ISBN 80-85879-48-4 (Czech)(German)(English)(French)(Japanese) Photographs of Akagi in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. With a preface by Vlasta Čiháková-Noshiro (in four languages but not German) and a biography and information about Štreit (in four languages but not Japanese).
• Štreit, Jindřich; Dufek Antonín. Zabavené fotografie / The Confiscated Photographs. Brno: Moravian Gallery, 1999. ISBN 80-238-4236-6 (Czech)(English)
• Štreit, Jindřich; Cousin, Christophe; Wagner, Jean-Jacques. A coeur perdu / Touches of Heart / Doteky srdce. Belfort: Musée d'art et d'histoire de Belfort, 1999. ISBN 80-238-4544-6 (Czech)(English)(French)
• Štreit, Jindřich. Cesta ke svobodě / The Road Towards Freedom / Weg zur Freiheit. Bruntál: Okresní úřad, 2000. ISBN 80-238-4954-9 (Czech)(English)(German)
• Štreit, Jindřich. Brána naděje / The Gate of Hope / La porte de l'espoir / Tor der Hoffnung. Olomouc: Arcibiskupství olomoucké, 2000. (Czech)(English)(French)(German)
• Štreit, Jindřich; Wawrzacz, Jiří (text): Lidé Třineckých železáren / People of Třinec Steelworks / Die Menschen die Třinecer Hütte / Les gens de l'usine métallurgique de Třinec. Třinec: Třinecké železárny; Moravia Steel, 2000. (Czech)(English)(French)(German)
• People of the Olomouc region / Lidé Olomouckého okresu. New York: Soho Photo; Czech Center New York, 2000. ISBN 80-900054-6-2. (Czech)(English)
• Štreit, Jindřich. Fotóhomok / Fotografie z kraje písku / Photographs from the Flatlands. Budapest: Budapest Galéria, 2000. ISBN 963-00-4339-4. (Hungarian)(Czech)(English)
• Jindřich Štreit ze Sovince, aneb, Kam (ne)vstoupila noha fotografova. Moravský Beroun: Moravská expedice, 2001. ISBN 80-86511-01-4. (Czech)
• Mezi námi / Among Us. V Sovinci: Společnost přátel umění, 2001. ISBN 8023874535. (Czech)
• Štreit, Jindřich; Sedláček, Martin (text). Daleko od domova. Brno: Nakladatelství Jaroslav Sedláček, 2002. ISBN 80-238-9393-9 (Czech)
• Cesty života / Ways of life. Olomouc: Krajský úřad Olomouckého kraje, 2003. ISBN 80-239-1356-5. (Czech)(English)
• Spolu / Together. Olomouc: Občanské sdružení SPOLU, 2003. ISBN 80-239-0602-X. (Czech)(English)
• Jindřich Štreit - Tváře za zdí / Jindřich Štreit - Faces behind the wall / Yinderehe Shitecaide - Weicheng zhi nei. Sedliště ve Slezsku: Lašské muzeum a galerie; Prague: Čínský kulturní institut, 2003. ISBN 80-239-1330-1. (Czech)(English)(Chinese)
• Štreit, Jindřich; Kopřiva, J.; Perunová, K. (text). Tak blízko, tak daleko. Čečna a Ingušsko 2003 / So Close and Yet So Far. Chechnya and Ingushetia 2003 / So nah und doch so fern. Tschetschenien und Ingutschien 2003. Prague: Sdružení Česká katolická charita, 2004. ISBN 80-239-1950-4 (Czech)(English)(German)
• Jindřich Štreit: Fotografie 1965-2005 / Jindřich Štreit: Photographs 1965-2005. Prague: Kant, 2006. ISBN 80-86970-05-1. (Czech)(English)
• Paměť času. Rýmařov: Městské muzeum v Rýmařově, 2006. ISBN 80-239-8204-4. (Czech)
• Identita reality. V Bruntále: Muzeum v Bruntále, 2007. ISBN 80-87038-04-5. (Czech)(English)
• Ocelový svět / World of steel. Hranice: Dost, 2008. ISBN 80-902942-5-1. (Czech)(English)
• Vítkovice. Prague: Kant, 2008. ISBN 80-86970-82-5. (Czech)
• Japonsko 1995 - Návraty. Hranice: Dost, 2008. ISBN 80-902942-5-1. (Czech)(English)
• Víra a odpuštění / Faith and forgiveness. Ostrava: Petarda, 2008. ISBN 80-87247-00-0. (Czech)(English)
• Europeans. Praha: Kant, 2009. ISBN 80-86970-89-2. (English) With Vladimír Birgus and Jindřich Marco.

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Moucha, Josef; Musilová, Helena; Hodek, Eva Marlene (2006). Fotogenie identity: pamět̕ české fotografie / The photogeny of identity: The memory of Czech photography. Prague: Kant; Prague House of Photography. pp. 218–227. ISBN 80-86970-12-4.  (Czech) (English)

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jindřich Štreit

• "Jindrich Streit", Amber Online.
• "Jindrich Streit Black and White photography exhibition Prague", ABC Prague.

Preclík and Theodor Arenberg (1965)

Vladimír Preclík (May 23, 1929 - April 3, 2008) was a Czech writer and sculptor. He was a prominent member of the Czech arts and cultural worlds for several decades.

Preclík was born on May 23, 1929, in the city of Hradec Králové in eastern Bohemia.^[1] He exhibited his sculptures internationally, including at the Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada, as part of the World Top 100 exhibition for sculptors.^[1] His works are currently housed in art galleries and private collections around the world, including Switzerland, the Czech Republic, the United States and Japan.^[1] Preclík was also an author and a member of the Czech Pen club.^[1]

Vladimír Preclík died at the age of 78 on April 3, 2008. He was survived by his wife, Jarmila.^[1]

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