Prague  - Lenka Reinerova, the oldest German-language writer in Prague, died Friday in her apartment at the age of 92, her publisher disclosed to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Reinerova had been largely a recluse ever since a spell in hospital in 2007, with the cause of her death not immediately known. Lucie Cernhousova, head of Literaturhaus, the Prague publisher of German-language writers, disclosed her death to dpa.

Last January, a speech written by Reinerova was read out in the German parliament marking the Holocaust. Her weak state had prevented her from appearing in person.

She was born in 1916, the daughter of an ethnic German mother from the Bohemia province and a Czech father from Prague. Before World War II, she had established herself in Prague's literary scene, along with such writers as Egon Kisch and Max Brod.

Reinerova spent the World War II years in exile in Mexico. She returned after the war, but then-Czechoslovakia's communist rulers banned her works from being published due to her "political unreliability." The ban was only lifted in 1989, when the communist system collapsed.

In the period afterwards, she received many cultural and literary prizes both in Germany and the Czech Republic. In her last years, she worked to revive the tradition of German-language literature in Prague and was a co-founder of the Literaturhaus. (dpa)