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Czech literature can refer to literature written in Czech, in the Czech Republic, or by Czech people. Most literature in the Czech Republic is now written in Czech, but historically, a considerable pa
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Jaroslav Seifert
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Jaroslav Seifert was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provide
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…of poets ushered in the return of the avantgarde: poetry of the heart (early Jiří Wolker, Zdeněk Kalista) and naivism (Čapek brothers, Josef Hora, Jaroslav Seifert, and S. K. Neumann). The avantgarde soon split, however, into the radical proletarian socialist and communist authors (Wolker, Neumann, Karel Teige…
Jaroslav Seifert in 1981
Jaroslav Seifert with daughter Jana, 1931