Zdeňka Bezděková Explained

Zdeňka Bezděková
Birth Name:Zdeňka Vondrušková
Birth Date:19 April 1907
Birth Place:České Budějovice, Austria-Hungary
Death Place:České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Known For:Writer
Notable Works:Říkali mi Leni

Zdeňka Bezděková (19 April 1907 – 12 August 1999) née Vondrušková, was a Czech writer, philosopher, and translator. She was largely known for writing Říkali mi Leni about a Czech girl living in post-war Germany.

Early life

Bezděková graduated from the girls' grammar school in České Budějovice, Czech Republic, and went on to study philosophy and literature in Prague and Paris, graduating in 1931.[1]

She first married on 22 June 1929 in Prague, to grammar school professor František Bezděk. They divorced in 1930.[2]

Career

Since 1933 she taught, first at secondary school level, then at a grammar school in České Budějovice. After the Second World War she was a teacher in Sušice and Prague. From 1949 she taught Czech literature at the Faculty of Education of the university in České Budějovice (now the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice), where she later headed the Department of Philology. She retired in 1962.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/showContent.jsp?docId=673&hl=bezd%C4%9Bkov%C3%A1+ No title given
  2. http://katalog.ahmp.cz/pragapublica/permalink?xid=826682AE7F1943FCA23A1145A2AE8E2F&scan=216#scan216 Catalogue
  3. https://digi.ceskearchivy.cz/9492/294/2660/2918/20/0 Zdeňka Vondrušková