Martin C. Putna

Prof. Mgr. Martin C. Putna, Dr., (born 30 May 1968 in Písek) is a Czech literary historian, university teacher, publicist and essayist. He works at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. Putna was born in Písek, Czech Republic. Between 1986 and 1991 he studied Philology at the Charles University in Prague. Since 1992 he has worked at the Charles University. He also studied Theology at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. He was visiting scholar at the University of Regensburg.He worked as a director of Vaclav Havel Presidential Library during the years 2009–2011. He is a regular contributor to the daily paper Lidové noviny, replacing Ludvík Vaculík as a core column author after Vaculík's death in 2015.