Draft:Jiří Brabec

Jiří Brabec (born October 28, 1929 in Kněževes, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech literary critic and historian.

Life
After graduating from high school, Brabec graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague, majoring in Czech language and history. In 1955, he took a position at the Institute of Czech Literature. He worked there until 1971, but then had to leave the institute for political reasons. During this time Brabec also lectured on Czech literature at the Faculty of Arts. After his dismissal, he worked in a number of manual professions. At this time he published only in exile or in samizdat publications.

Between 1990–2002, Brabec lectured on 20th-century Czech literature at Charles University. He is currently a researcher at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His daughter is the writer Zuzana Brabcová.

In 2017, he received the Jaroslav Seifert Prize.

Works

 * Jak číst poezii (How to Read Poetry), 1963
 * Poezie na předělu doby (Poetry at the Divide), 1964
 * Černobílé roky (Black and white years), 1965, together with Václav Sivko
 * (co-author) Slovník českých spisovatelů (Dictionary of Czech Writers), 1982, Toronto, in the Czech Republic under the title Slovník zakázaných autorů (Dictionary of Prohibited Authors), 1991
 * Dějiny české literatury IV (History of Czech literature IV), Prague, 1995 (chapters on Czech literature 1929–1945)

In addition to his own books, Brabec has published many studies, works, and magazine articles on Czech literature. He has also participated in the publication of books by a number of important poets, often as an editor (e.g. Jaroslav Seifert, František Hrubín, František Halas)