Ivan Klima, Czech Novelist Who Chafed Under Totalitarian Regimes, Dies at 94

Ivan Klima, a Czech writer, dissident, teacher, and critic, has died at age 94. Profoundly marked by his boyhood incarceration in the Terezín concentration camp near Prague, he channeled his experiences into a lifetime of writing that defended free thought in Czechoslovakia and beyond.

Ivan Klima, Czech Novelist Who Chafed Under Totalitarian Regimes, Dies at 94