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Czech writer and former political dissident Jiri Grusa was re-elected president of the PEN Club of authors on Friday at the group's 72th congress in Berlin.
Grusa, the 67-year-old author of the highly acclaimed novel "The Questionnaire", has held the post since 2003.
He opposed the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia and went into exile first in the United States and then in Germany.
Grusa served as the Czech Republic's ambassador to Germany for seven years after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
The PEN Club, which was created in 1921, seeks to promote the freedom of expression of writers.
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AFP 261501 GMT 05 06
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