Jaroslav Seifert - Prague, Czech Republic
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Jaroslav Seifert(23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Nobel Prize–winning Czechoslovak writer, poet and journalist.
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 12/21/2016
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Born in Žižkov, a suburb of Prague in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, his first collection of poems was published in 1921. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSC), the editor of a number of communist newspapers and magazines – Rovnost, Sršatec, and Reflektor – and the employee of a communist publishing house.
During the 1920s he was considered a leading representative of the Czechoslovakian artistic avant-garde. He was one of the founders of the journal Devetsil. In March 1929, he and six other writers left the KSC after signing a manifesto protesting against Bolshevik tendencies in the new leadership of the party. He subsequently worked as a journalist in the social-democratic and trade union press during the 1930s and 1940s.
In 1949 Seifert left journalism and began to devote himself exclusively to literature. His poetry was awarded important state prizes in 1936, 1955, and 1968, and in 1967 he was designated National Artist. He was the official Chairman of the Czechoslovak Writer's Union for several years (1968–70). In 1977 he was one of the signatories of Charter 77 in opposition to the government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
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CZ: 3.zárí v 7 hodin 33 minut ráno roku 1901 se v tomto dome narodil básník Jaroslav Seifert
EN: September 3 in 7 hours 33 minutes in the morning 1901, this house was born poet Jaroslav Seifert