Background
Hrabě was born in Příbram to January Hrabě and Magdalena Kalinová.
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Vaclav Hrabe
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He spent his childhood and youth in Lochovice and attended a high school in nearby Hořovice. He graduated in 1957 and moved to Prague, where he continued his education at the Faculty of Pedagogy, studying Czechoslovakian language and History.
Career
After graduation from the university in 1961 he served two years in the army. Upon his discharge he worked in a variety of jobs - as laborer, librarian, writer for the literary magazine Tvář (Face), and finally as teacher. Hrabě"s untimely death at the age of twenty-five (he died in his sleep, accidentally poisoned by carbon monoxide), robbed Czechoslovakian literature of the most important poet of his generation.
Hrabě is buried in Lochovice.
In 1965 Hrabě met and interviewed American poet Allen Ginsberg during his visit to Prague.
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Czechoslovakian Republic