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Czech BooksLenka Reinerova - a writer who keeps the rich tradition of Prague German literature alive
There must be few writers anywhere in the world who have led quite such
fascinating lives as Lenka Reinerova. Now an energetic 88-year-old with a
glint in her eye and a charisma that give her the look of someone at least
15 years younger, she has lived through many of the dramas of the 20th
century. Today she is settled in Prague, the city where she grew up in a
middle-class Jewish family before the war. With the rise of fascism, like
many of her generation, she embraced communism, in the hope of resisting
the menace that was coming from Germany, and she came to know some of the
extraordinary literary figures of Prague at the time, including Franz
Kafka's friend, Max Brod, and the famous "roving reporter" Egon
Erwin Kisch.
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In this week's edition of Mailbox: Lenka Reinerova - author and honorary
Prague citizen, and Roger Chambers - a Radio Prague listener who has been
tuning in since the late 1960s.
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