Zbyněk Hejda

Zbyněk Hejda studied at Charles University. The recorded working language is Czech. Places of work recorded in the authority are Prague. Distinctions recorded are USTR Prize for Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights, Jaroslav Seifert Prize and participant in the resistance and resistance against communism.

He studied philosophy and history at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. From 1953 to 1958, he taught the history of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia at the Faculty of Arts. From 1958 to 1968, he worked at the Prague Information Service, and later in 1968 he started working in a publishing house but left the very same year together with the whole editorial staff. From 1968 to 1978 he worked in a second hand bookshop, until he signed the Charter 77 and was forced to leave. From 1981 to 1989 he worked as a caretaker. Since 1990 to 1995 he taught cultural anthropology at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University.

Since 1959 he published his poetry in literary magazines, including Revolver Revue, in the Czechoslovak Republic, and in Czech exile magazines, such as Svědectví published by Pavel Tigrid in Paris. He received The Tom Stoppard Prize for his essays in 1989 and the Jaroslav Seifert Prize in 1996.

Zbyněk Hejda is recorded as having received USTR Prize for Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights, Jaroslav Seifert Prize and participant in the resistance and resistance against communism. Recognition and collections. Hejda received USTR Prize for Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights, Jaroslav Seifert Prize and participant in the resistance and resistance against communism.