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Jaroslav Seifert (
September 23,
1901–
January 10,
1986) was a
Nobel prize winning
Czech writer,
poet and
journalist.
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, the editor of a number of communist newspapers and magazines -
Rovnost,
Srsatec, 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
Devětsil.
In March
1929, he and six other important communist writers left the Communist Party for signing a manifesto protesting against
Bolshevik tendencies in the new leadership of the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
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 repressive regime of the time.
Seifert was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature in
1984. Due to bad health, he wasn't present at the award ceremony, and so his daughter received the Nobel Prize in his name. (Some sources say, that the government didn't let him go accept the prize.) Even though it was a matter of great importance, there was only a brief remark on the award in the state-controlled media. He died in
1986 and was buried at the municipal cemetery in
Kralupy nad Vltavou. His burial was marked by a high presence of secret police, who tried to suppress any hint of dissent on the part of mourners.
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