Josef STRAKA
Josef Straka, a Czech poet, was born in Jablonec nad Nisou in 1972. He studied psychology at Karlov University in Prague, where he worked for eight years at the Institute of Psychology. Since 2006, Straka has worked as a librarian in the Prague City Library. From 2004 to 2008, he edited the journal Weles.
Josef Straka has published his texts in the following journals: Tvar (Form), Host (Guest), Weles, Pandora, Plž (Snail), Newsletter of Franz Kafka Society, Almanach Wagon (Almanac Wagon) and Veronica, as well as in the Polish journals Portret (Portrait) and Bohema (Bohemianism). His poems are present in the Anthology of Czech Poetry 1986–2006, then in the Internet anthology Vrh křídel (Hurl of Wings) and in the Anthology of the Czech Radio Feuilleton 2002–2004.
Straka has published books: and …other times (1994), Why (1995), Hotel Bristol (2004), The Town of Mons (2005), and A Church in the Fog (2008).
He is interested in the contemporary painting and visual art. One of his favourite poets is Fernando Pessoa. He likes hotel rooms and is devoted to walking through suburbs of European towns.
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