- Lenka Reinerová was born on May 17, 1916 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was a writer, known for Be Sure to Behave (1968), Flucht nach Mexiko - Deutsche im Exil (1994) and Zur Person (1963). She was married to Theodor Balk. She died on June 17, 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic.
- SpouseTheodor Balk(1943 - June 17, 2008) (her death, 1 child)
- Novelist.
- Is a Holocaust survivor.
- Awards: Czech Order of Merit (2001), Freedom of the City of Prague (2002), the Goethe Medal (2003) and the Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz (2006).
- When Stalin's anti-"Trotskyite-Titoist-Zionist" campaign swept through the Soviet bloc in the early 1950s, she was arrested and spent 15 months in prison, most of it in solitary confinement, in Prague's infamous Ruzyne prison. She was released when Stalin died in 1953.
- After the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, she was not allowed to publish, and worked instead as a translator.
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