Education
Having graduated from a grammar school in 1939, she started to study philosophy in Brno, where she stayed until the Nazi occupants closed all universities. She finished her studies in 1949 at the Charles University in Prague.
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Jirina Haukova
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Career
After that she worked as an editor in Obzor (The Horizon) in Přerov. Until 1950, when she started career as a professional writer, she worked for the Ministry of Information. Apart from her own books of poetry, she was a celebrated translator from English.
In 1996 she received, together with the poet Zbyněk Hejda, the prestigious Jaroslav Seifert Award for the outstanding lifetime contribution to the Czechoslovakian literature.
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Czechoslovakian Republic