Jan Čarek

Jan Čarek (29 December 1898, in Heřmaň, Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic – 27 March 1966, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a Czechoslovak poet, essayist, and literary critic.

He was greatly popular in his day for his children's books a "rural" poetry.

He was initially working as a railway clerk.

Since 1946 he started his professional writer career.

Since the 1920s he regularly published his works in a number of Czech literary magazines.

Jan Čarek
A funerary urn of Jan Čarek placed in the wall of his birthplace church in Heřmaň in South Bohemian Region.