What is Ota Filip?
{{Infobox writer | name = Ota Filip | image = Filip.black.white.jpeg | imagesize = 200px | caption = Ota Filip, photo by Ota Filip, 1997 | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1930|3|9}} | birth_place = [[Ostrava]], [[Czech Republic]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2018|3|2|1930|3|9}} | death_place = [[Garmisch-Partenkirchen]], [[Germany]] | occupation = [[Novelist]], [[Journalist]], [[Essayist]], [[Translator]] | nationality = German | genre = [[fiction]], [[non-fiction]], [[satire]], [[essay]], [[literature]], [[political commentary]], [[social commentary]], [[literary criticism]] | spouse = {{marriage |[[Marie Filip (nee Ledvinova)]]| 1953}} | children = Pavel Filip, [[Hana Filip|Filip, Hana]] }} '''Ota Filip''' (9 March 1930 – 2 March 2018)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reflex.cz/clanek/kultura/85463/zemrel-predni-cesky-exilovy-spisovatel-ota-filip-podivejte-se-na-jeho-posledni-rozhovor-pro-reflex.html|title=Zemřel přední český exilový spisovatel Ota Filip. Podívejte se na jeho poslední rozhovor pro Reflex|website=Reflex.cz}}</ref> was a [[Czech Republic|Czech]] novelist and journalist. He has written in both German and Czech. 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/showContent.jsp?docId=1221&hl=Ota+Filip+ |title=Slovník české literatury |publisher=Slovnikceskeliteratury.cz |access-date=2012-11-02}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [https://www.otafilip.de Homepage] * [http://www.slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/showContent.jsp?docId=1221&hl=Ota+Filip+ Slovnik ceske literatury] * [http://www.czechlit.cz/autori/filip-ota/ Medailon na Portálu české literatury] {{Webar