Jana Černá Explained

Jana Černá
Birth Name:Jana Krejcarová
Birth Date:14 August 1928
Birth Place:Prague, Czechoslovakia
Death Place:Prague, Czechoslovakia
Other Names:Honza Krejcarová
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Occupation:Writer, Poet
Parents:Jaromír Krejcar (father)
Milena Jesenská (mother)
Relatives:Jan Jesenský (grandfather)
Partner:Egon Bondy
Spouse:
  • Pavel Gabriel
  • Miloš Černý
  • Ladislav Lipanský
  • Daniel Landman

Jana Černá (14 August 1928 – 5 January 1981), 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, 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.

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