Jiří Reynek (5 July 1929 – 15 October 2014) was a Czech poet and graphic artist. A fluent

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speaker, he translated the works of

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and

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. He was the son of

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and

Bohuslav Reynek Bohuslav Reynek (31 May 1892 – 28 October 1971) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. Education and personal life Reynek was born on 31 May 1892 in Petrkov (today part of Lípa (Havlíčkův Brod District), Lípa). From 1904 to 1911 ...

. Photographer was his older brother. The family spent winters in

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and summers in Petrkov, where Reynek spent most of his adult life. The family farm was seized by Germany during

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, then came under state control after Czechoslovakia transitioned to communism in the 1948 coup d'état. Reynek was born in

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. and died on 15 October 2014, aged 85 in Petrkov, Czech Republic.

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