Vladimír Šlechta

Who is Vladimír Šlechta?

Vladimír Šlechta is a Czech science fiction and fantasy author.

He was born in Liberec in 1960. He comes from the south of Bohemia in the Czech Republic and most of his life he spent either in České Budějovice or in its surroundings. He studied Secondary Grammar School and then he studied at a university. Since 1984 has been married and he has two grown-up sons. Vladimír Šlechta couldn't study a second school in České Budějovice that’s why he studied Secondary Grammar School in Trhové Sviny. In 1967 his father joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and one year later he declared against the Party so they kick him out of the Party. They fired his father from the University where he was teaching and he couldn’t find a job. So Vladimír grew up at the oppressive time when the children of sacked Communists had a very little chance to study a second school. Vladimír Šlechta was employed in the projection departments of various hydraulic institutions. He worked three years as clerk for firemen and few years as a project and investment manager. Since 1999 he has been businessman. He projects water buildings. Being businessman is very rough but Vladimír is satisfied.