Luděk Pešek
Pešek, Luděk
April 26, 1919 – December 4, 1999 (aged 80)
Birth place: Kladno, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia
Artist who was somewhat famous for his space art, and lived from 1968 in Switzerland, after being exiled by the Czech communist regime. He also wrote science fiction. Though Pešek's respective first publications were in German, all of his fiction titles were originally written in Czech (and translated into German). Thus Pešek's working language was in fact Czech.