Ota Filip

Ota Filip (9 March 1930 – 2 March 2018)^[1] was a Czech novelist and journalist. He has written in both German and Czech.

Ota Filip
Ota Filip, photo by Ota Filip, 1997
Born	(1930-03-09)9 March 1930 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Died	2 March 2018(2018-03-02) (aged 87) Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Occupation	Novelist, Journalist, Essayist, Translator
Nationality	German
Genre	fiction, non-fiction, satire, essay, literature, political commentary, social commentary, literary criticism
Spouse	Marie Filip (nee Ledvinova) ​ ​ (m. 1953)​
Children	Pavel Filip, Filip, Hana

During the communist era government of Czechoslovakia his works were banned or censored by the authorities, and after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact Armed Forces in 1968, he was sentenced for his dissident activities, and incarcerated between 1969 and 1971.

After he was released from political prison, he moved to Germany in 1974.^[2]