Jaroslav Seifert Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 10 pages of information about the life of Jaroslav Seifert.

Jaroslav Seifert Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 10 pages of information about the life of Jaroslav Seifert.
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Jaroslav Seifert, the first Czech winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, was primarily a poet, but he was also a journalist, translator, and prose writer. His influence on Czech literature has been felt throughout the twentieth century. Seifert was the leading representative of avant-garde art and a member of the group Devetsil (Nine Forces). First, he wrote proletarian poetry. In the 1920s Seifert and Vitezslav Nezval were the chief exponents of poetism, a major original school of poetry in Czech literature of the 1920s. During World War II Seifert became a fearless defender of Czech national culture. In his declining years, he was an outstanding representative of the democratic trend in Czech arts. As early as the mid 1950s Seifert took a courageous stance within the writers' opposition challenging the Communist totalitarian regime.

Jaroslav Seifert was born 23 September 1901 in Zizkov, a suburb of Prague, to...

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