Karel Šiktanc

Karel Šiktanc (10 July 1928 – 26 December 2021) was a Czech poet and children's writer.

Over the next seven decades, he published dozens of other collections of poetry, as well as many children's books.

In 2000, he received the Czech State Award for Literature for his poetry collection Šarlat (1999).

He is a two-time winner of the Jaroslav Seifert Prize for his collections Srdce svého nejez (1989) and Nesmír (2011).

[2] He won the Magnesia Litera award for Zimoviště in 2004 and was nominated for the same prize for Nesmír in 2011.