Ota Filip

Ota Filip (9 March 1930 – 2 March 2018) was a Czech novelist and journalist. He has written in both German and Czech.

During the communist era government of Czechoslovakia his works were banned or censored by the authorities, and after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact Armed Forces in 1968, he was sentenced for his dissident activities, and incarcerated between 1969 and 1971.

After he was released from political prison, he moved to Germany in 1974.

References

Other websites
 Homepage 
 Slovnik ceske literatury
 Medailon na Portálu české literatury 
 Ota Filip a poznámky k jeho takzvaným ostravským románům 

Category:1930 births
Category:2018 deaths
Category:Czech novelists
Category:Czechoslovak journalists
Category:Political writers
Category:Essayists
Category:Czechoslovak anti-communists