František Halas

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František Halas
Born(1901-10-03)3 October 1901
Brno, Austria-Hungary
Died27 October 1949(1949-10-27) (aged 48)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Resting placeKunštát
OccupationPoet
NationalityCzech
ChildrenFrantišek Xaver Halas
Jan Halas
Grave of František Halas in Kunštát

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)

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