 His various international rewards and honors also include the Grand Prix at the International Salon of Cartoons in Montreal and the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.Born was born in the town of České Velenice on the Bohemian side of the southern border with Austria, moving to Prague with his family in 1935.He received his visual arts education between 1949 and 1955 at the School of Applied Arts in Prague, in the Department of Caricature and Newspaper Drawing.