Stanislav Rudolf

Stanislav Rudolf (16 February 1932 – 8 January 2022) was a Czech writer, screenwriter and journalist.

Stanislav Rudolf
Born	16 February 1932 (1932-02-16) Jičín, Czechoslovakia
Died	8 January 2022 (2022-01-09) (aged 89) Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav, Czechia
Education	University of South Bohemia; Charles University
Occupation	Writer

Life and career

Born in Jičín, Rudolf graduated in Educational Sciences at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, working as a primary school teacher in Písek.^[1][2] In the second half of the 1950s he studied Czech and pedagogy at the Charles University in Prague, and became a university assistant of Czech literature at the Brandýs nad Labem department of the Charles University.^[1][2]

After having worked as an editor for the magazines Pionýrské noviny [cs] and Květy [cs], in 1969 he made his literary debut with the novel Metráček aneb Nemožně tlustá holka ("Little Fatty or the Impossibly Fat Girl").^[1] His novels were often set in school environments and had female teenage characters as main protagonists.^[1] Several of his books including his debut novel were adapted into films, and Rudolf himself worked as a screenwriter in films and television.^[1][2]

Rudolf died in Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav on 8 January 2022, at the age of 89.^[1][2]