František Halas

Died in 1949

František Halas was born on 3 October 1901 in Brno, into a family of textile workers; his mother died when he was eight and his father, a labour organiser, was a prisoner on the Russian front during the war. An apprentice bookseller, then an insurance clerk, he joined the Communist Party in 1921, helped found the Devětsil group in Brno and published the review Pásmo. After six months in France, he settled in Prague in 1926, as an editor at the publisher Orbis. A resistance member under the occupation, he worked after 1945 at the Ministry of Information and died in Prague on 27 October 1949.

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PoetryStaré ženyFrantišek Halas · 1935not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain