Slovak Literary Review 2015 [antikvár]

JanRozner1922 - 2006'TJi,'Jan Rozner was a leading Slovak journalist, literary, theatre and film critic and theorist, and translator from German and English. Following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 Rozner and his wife Zora Jesenska, a distinguished translator of Russian literature, both of them active proponents of the Prague Spring, were blacklisted and lost their jobs. When Jesenska died of cancer in 1972, her funeral turned into a political event and everyone who attended it faced recriminations. In 1976 Jan Rozner emigrated to Germany with his second wife. He died in Munich in 2006. ^