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Jana Černá
Jana Černá in 1964
Born Jana Krejcarová(1928-08-14)14 August 1928Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died 5 January 1981(1981-01-05) (aged 52)Prague, Czechoslovakia
Other names Honza KrejcarováSarah Silberstein
Occupation(s) Writer, Poet
Spouses Pavel Gabriel Miloš Černý Ladislav Lipanský Daniel Landman
Partner Egon Bondy
Parent(s) Jaromír Krejcar (father)Milena Jesenská (mother)
Relatives Jan Jesenský (grandfather)

Jana Černá (14 August 1928 – 5 January 1981), born Jana Krejcarová, called "Honza" was a Czech poet, writer, and editor of samizdat editions in Czechoslovakia. She was a daughter of the journalist Milena Jesenská (1896-1944) and architect Jaromír Krejcar (1895-1950). After the communist coup d'état of 1948 she started publishing with her friends Egon Bondy, Ivo Vodseďálek [cs] and others in a secret underground edition Půlnoc. She was married 4 times and had 5 children. Černá died at the age of 52 in a car accident.