Jan Drda

Jan Drda (4 April 1915 – 28 November 1970) was a Czech journalist, politician, playwright, screenwriter and author of modern fairytales.

[citation needed] From a young age, Drda wrote stories and dramatic plays for Ochotnické divadlo [cs], and he began contributing to newspapers and magazines from 1932.

[citation needed] Drda had been a Communist Party sympathizer since before the Second World War, and supported the blacklisting of some writers who were against Communism.

After February 1948, he held various cultural and political offices, was part of several foreign delegations, including to South America, and was elected to the National Assembly, representing the Prague district, where he remained a member until 1960.

[5] Drda fell out of favour after condemning the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and the subsequent occupation, and was expelled from the Communist Party.