Zbyněk Hejda

He studied philosophy and history at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.[3] From 1953 to 1958, he taught the history of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia at the Faculty of Arts.[3] From 1958 to 1968, he worked at the Prague Information Service, and later in 1968 he started working in a publishing house but left the very same year together with the whole editorial staff.[3] From 1968 to 1978 he worked in a second hand bookshop, until he signed the Charter 77 and was forced to leave.[3] From 1981 to 1989 he worked as a caretaker.[3] Since 1990 to 1995 he taught cultural anthropology at the 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University.[3]

Since 1959 he published his poetry in literary magazines, including Revolver Revue, in the Czechoslovak Republic, and in Czech exile magazines, such as Svědectví published by Pavel Tigrid in Paris.[3] He received The Tom Stoppard Prize for his essays in 1989[2] and the Jaroslav Seifert Prize in 1996.[4]

• Všechna slast, 1964
• Blízkosti smrti, samizdat 1978, Munich 1985, Prague 1992
• Lady Felthamová, samizdat 1979, Paris 1987, Prague 1992
• Tři básně, samizdat 1987
• Pobyt v sanatoriu, 1993
• Nikoho tam nepotkám, 1994
• Valse mélancolique, Brno 1995
• Básně, 1996 (Collected Poems)
• Překlady, 1998 (Collected Translations)
• Cesta k Cerekvi, 2004
• Sny, 2007

• Zbyněk Hejda (in Czech)
• Z. Hejda's poetry (in Czech)