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A Childhood in Terezin

Ivan Klíma

Translated by Paul Wilson

‘I am trying to reach, in memory, a time before the war began.’

Ivan Klíma

Ivan Klima was born in 1931 in Prague, where he now lives, and was editor of the journal of the Czech Writers' Union during the Prague Spring. He is the author of many plays, stories and novels, including Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light, The Ultimate Intimacy and My Golden Trades, and a non-fiction book, The Spirit of Prague, all of which are published by Granta Books. His work, which is now published worldwide, was once banned in his own country.

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Translated by Paul Wilson

Paul Wilson is a Canadian translator and writer. He lived in Czechoslovakia for ten years before he was exiled  by the Communist government. He is currently working on a translation of Vaclav Havel’s play The Memorandum.

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