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Ivan Blatný Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature

Ivan Blatný Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature Ivan Blatný Collection

Location

  • Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
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Languages

  • Czech
  • English
  • French
  • German

Name of collection

  • Blatný Ivan (1919-1990)

Provenance and cultural activities

Description of content

  • This collection consists of Blatný’s private documents, manuscripts of his works (mainly poems), incoming and outgoing correspondence (e.g. with Czech art theorist Jindřich Chalupecký), paper clippings, photographs and other documents. Its extent is 45 cartons (boxes).

Content

  • manuscripts (ego-documents, diaries, notes, letters, drafts, etc.): 1000-
  • photos: 100-499
  • publications (books, newspapers, articles, press clippings): 10-99

Stakeholder(s) of the collection

Geographical scope of recent operation

  • international

Date of founding

  • 1977

Place of founding

Access type

  • visits by appointments

Author(s) of this page

  • Kůželová, Michaela

References

PNP. 2017. Výroční zpráva 2016." Accessed October 17. http://www.pamatniknarodnihopisemnictvi.cz/content/fck/files/VyrocniZpravaPNP2016.pdf.

Schreiberová, Jarmila. 2014. "Nad literární pozůstalostí Ivana Blatného." Literární archiv 46: 516–520. 

Reiner, Martin. 2014. Básník: román o Ivanu Blatném. Praha: Torst.

Tharp, Martin, Rachel Mikos, and David Vaughan. 2004. "Ivan Blatny: The Strange Story of a Czech Poet in English Exile." Last modified February 22. http://www.radio.cz/en/section/books/ivan-blatny-the-strange-story-of-a-czech-poet-in-english-exile. 

Literární archiv Památníku národního písemnictví. 2014. Blatný Ivan (1919–1990) - inventář. Praha: Literární archiv PNP.

Vaughan, David. 2010. "Ivan Blatný: A Great Czech Poet Lost and Found." Last modified September 5. http://www.radio.cz/en/section/books/ivan-blatny-a-great-czech-poet-lost-and-found.

The description of this collection was created with the kind help of the director of the Museum of Czech Literature (PNP) Mgr. Zdeněk Freisleben, the head of the Literary Archive of the PNP PhDr. Tomáš Pavlíček, PhD., and the curator of the Literary Archive of the PNP PhDr. Petr Kotyk.

Rambousek, Jiří. 2010. „Tak jdete pomalu po městě dětství…“ Duha [online] 24, No. 2. Accessible at https://duha.mzk.cz/clanky/tak-jdete-pomalu-po-meste-detstvi.

Kotyk, Petr, interview by Kůželová, Michaela, November 15, 2017. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

Last edited on: 2020-02-06 20:01:12