I didn‘t want to live my life begging
Jiří Matouš was born on September 29, 1950 in Vejprty, but spent most of his childhood in Prague, where he grew up in an apartment on Zámecké schody. In 1967, he managed to go to France to the Carnot high school in Dijon. He did not return from France after finishing his studies and found a job in Paris. In the 1980s, he started working for the Journalists‘ Association, where he eventually became a director. After the Velvet Revolution, he returned to Czechoslovakia and became involved in the privatization of publishing with his firm named Strategie. In 2022 he lived in Horoměřice.