Ivan Klíma
Klíma, Ivan
September 14, 1931 – October 4, 2025 (aged 94)
Birth place: Prague, Czechoslovakia
Novelist and playwright who received among other honours the Franz Kafka Prize. He was born as Ivan Kauders, but the family legally changed their surname to Klíma in 1945. Though a dissident and at the time of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 being in London & on his way to a teaching engagement in Michigan, USA, he returned to Prague in March 1970, where he remained with his family.