Milena Jesenská
Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator
- Lived
- 1896–1944
- Country
- Czechoslovakia
- Also writes as
- Milena
Updated September 2026
About Milena Jesenská
Milena Jesenská was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. She is noted for her correspondence with the author Franz Kafka and was one of the first to translate his work from the German language. After the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, she joined a resistance movement to help Jews and other refugees. She died in Ravensbrück, a Nazi prison camp.
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