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Ivan Martin Jirous

1944 – 2011

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Ivan Martin Jirous (23 September 1944 – 9 November 2011) was a Czech poet and dissident, best known as the artistic director of the Czech psychedelic rock group The Plastic People of the Universe, and later one of the key figures of the Czech underground during the communist regime. He is more frequently known as Magor, which can be roughly translated as "shithead", "loony", or "fool" (though meant as a positive title), a nickname given to him by the experimental poet Eugen Brikcius. Trained as an art historian but unable to work in this field in Czechoslovakia under the Communist regime, Jiro

Name
Ivan Martin Jirous
Locality
Kostelní Vydří, Cehia
Born
23 septembrie 1944
Died
9 noiembrie 2011
Age
67 years
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Cimitir Kostelní Vydří
Locality
Kostelní Vydří
Country
Cehia
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