Petr Král
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Czech poet, essayist and writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Petr Král was a Czech writer, initially influenced by surrealism. Král was born in Prague. Having graduated from FAMU, he worked as an editor in the Orbis publishing house, where he focused on a line of books about film and filmmakers. In 1968, he emigrated to France where he worked in a gallery, a photo shop, as a teacher, interpreter, translator, screenplay author, reviewer and so on. In 1984 he lived in Québec. From 1990 to 1991 he was a cultural counsellor at the Czech embassy in Paris. He translated from and into French . He edited several anthologies. Since April 2006, he resided in Prague.
