1992年4月,美国纳特格大学举办了一次国际研讨会,讨论的题目是苏东剧变后的局势,参加者中有许多前苏联和东欧的作家。捷克当代著名作家伊凡·克里玛也在会上作了发言。他说,人们常向他提出这样两个问题:他的童年是怎样从纳粹集中营里熬过来的,他作为一个作家又是怎样从前苏联 In April 1992, the United States held an international symposium at Naturh University to discuss the situation after the drastic changes in the Soviet Union and East Europe. Among the participants were many writers from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Ivan Kerima, the famous contemporary Czech writer, also made a speech at the meeting. He said that people often ask him these two questions: How did his childhood survive in Nazi concentration camps and how he, as a writer,