Czech novelist and playwright whose work was banned under communism Czech novelist and playwright whose work was banned under communism Ivan Klíma, who has died aged 94, carried into the third decade of the 21st century his memories of four years in a Nazi concentration camp. That childhood, from 10 to 14, was spent in the “model” camp at Terezín, where Jews died from malnutrition rather than extermination. It left an indelible stamp on the Czech writer’s mind and work as it taught him that “