Jan Čep

In 1926, he joined Josef Florian's Christian community in Stará Říše and worked in its publishing house as a translator.

After later having been seduced by Florian's elder sister, he returned to Prague and worked as a translator for the publishing houses Melantrich and Symposion.

He only corresponded with his best friend, the poet Jan Zahradníček (their correspondence was published in the 1990s as a book) and made visits to a Dominican cloister in Olomouc to see his other friend, a monk, theologian and literature critic named Silvestr Maria Braito.

After the end of World War II he returned to Prague and worked as an editor in the Vyšehrad publishing house.

In exile, Jan Čep lived in Paris (1948-1951) and in Munich (1951-1954) where he became a commentator in the Czech section of Radio Free Europe.