Jan Zahradníček

Jan Zahradníček (17 January 1905, Mastník, Moravia − 10 October 1960, Vlčatín) was a Moravian (Czech) poet, journalist and translator.

Among his teachers were the literary critic František Xaver Šalda and the writer Václav Tille.

In June 1951 he was arrested by the Communist secret police (StB) and sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment.

[2] He had four children, two daughters died from mushroom poisoning in the time of his imprisonment.

Verse books from prison Čtyři léta and Dům strach were published in exile (Canada) during the 1970s.