A writer, dissident, teacher and critic, he was deeply affected by an early experience of his life: incarceration as a boy in a concentration camp near Prague. Ivan Klima, Czech novelist and playwright, in 2013. “That life can be snapped like a piece of string — that was my daily lesson as a child,” he said.Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times By David Binder and Dan Bilefsky Oct.