Jana Černá

Jana Černá
Jana Černá in 1964
Born	Jana Krejcarová (1928-08-14)14 August 1928 Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died	5 January 1981(1981-01-05) (aged 52) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Other names	Honza Krejcarová Sarah Silberstein
Occupation(s)	Writer, Poet
Spouses	Pavel Gabriel Miloš Černý Ladislav Lipanský Daniel Landman
Partner	Egon Bondy
Parent(s)	Jaromír Krejcar (father) Milena Jesenská (mother)
Relatives	Jan Jesenský (grandfather)

Jana Černá (14 August 1928, Prague – 5 January 1981, Prague), born Jana Krejcarová, called "Honza" was a Czech poet, writer, and editor of samizdat editions in Czechoslovakia. She was a daughter of the journalist Milena Jesenská (1896-1944) and architect Jaromír Krejcar (1895-1950). After the communist coup d'état of 1948 she started publishing with her friends Egon Bondy, Ivo Vodseďálek and others in a secret underground edition Půlnoc. She was married 4 times and had 5 children. Černá died at the age of 52 in a car accident.

Work

• Hrdinství je povinné (1964)
• Nebyly to moje děti... (1966)
• Adresát Milena Jesenská (1969)
• V zahrádce otce mého (1988)
• Clarissa a jiné texty (1990)

External links

• http://www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/showContent.jsp?docId=297
• Clarissa a jiné texty
• Otisky duší
• Conference proceedings of  "Honza Krejcarová. Internationaler Workshop Wien, 27. – 28.10.2016 VeranstalterInnen Dr. Matteo Colombi / GWZO LeipzigAss.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gertraude Zand / Universität Wien und der tschechische Underground.(Re-)Konstruktion eines Mythos," dedicated to her life and work in the journal Slovo a smysl / Word and Sense with contributions by Matteo Colombi, Natascha Drubek, Xavier Galmiche, Martin Machovec, Anna Militz, Josef Vojvodík, Peter Zajac, Gertraude Zand: 2017 (14) 28. https://wordandsense.ff.cuni.cz/en/magazin/2017-14-28-2/