František Halas
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František Halas | |
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Born | Brno, Austria-Hungary | 3 October 1901
Died | 27 October 1949 Prague, Czechoslovakia | (aged 48)
Resting place | Kunštát |
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | Czech |
Children | František Xaver Halas Jan Halas |
František Halas (3 October 1901 in Brno – 27 October 1949 in Prague) was one of the most significant Czech lyric poets of the 20th century, an essayist, and a translator.
Life
Born as the son of textile worker, Halas worked as bookseller. He was self-taught, without higher education. After 1921 he started publishing in the communist newspapers Rovnost and Sršatec, and in 1926 he became an editor at the Prague publishing house Orbis. During World War II he was active in the resistance movement, and after 1945 he was engaged at the Ministry of Information.
Work
poetry:
- Sepie (1927)
- Kohout plaší smrt (1930)
- Tvář (1931)
- Hořec (1933)
- Dělnice (1934)
- Staré ženy (1935)
- Dokořán (1936)
- Torzo naděje (1938)
- Naše paní Božena Němcová (1940)
- Ladění (1942)
- Já se tam vrátím (1947)
- V řadě (1948)
References
- Bohuš Balajka: Přehledné dějiny literatury II. Prague: Fortuna, 2005. ISBN 80-7168-781-2
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