František Halas
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
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
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
External links
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