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Jaroslav Seifert

Died in 1986

Jaroslav Seifert was born on 23 September 1901 in Žižkov, a working-class suburb of Prague. A journalist in the Communist press and a founding member of Devětsil, he left the party in 1929 with six other writers, in protest against its Stalinization. In 1956 he demanded the release of imprisoned writers; named national artist in 1966, he presided in 1969 over the writers' union, dissolved the following year. A signatory of Charter 77, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1984, the first awarded to a Czech writer, and died in Prague on 10 January 1986.

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