Antonín J. Liehm

Antonín Jaroslav Liehm (2 March 1924 – 4 December 2020) was a Czech-born writer, publisher, translator, and scholar residing in Paris.

Antonín J. Liehm studied political sciences at Vysoká škola politická a sociální [cs] in Prague, graduating in 1949.

[2] In 1945, Liehm, along with Emil František Burian, founded a weekly magazine, titled Kulturní politika (Cultural politics).

Among those working close to Liehm at the time were Ludvík Vaculík, Milan Kundera, Jan Procházka, Pavel Kohout and Ivan Klíma.

Liehm described the magazine's concept in these words: "If we had a good text, whether German, American, Russian, then we sought out a context for it.