Author · Czechia
Vítězslav Nezval
Died in 1958
Vítězslav Nezval was born on 26 May 1900 in Biskoupky, Moravia, the son of a schoolteacher. A member of the Devětsil group and co-founder of Poetism, he joined the Communist Party in 1924 and in 1934 founded the Czechoslovak Surrealist group, which he himself dissolved in 1938. He wrote tirelessly, poems, plays, novels, and translated poetry. After the war he headed the film section at the Ministry of Information, was named National Artist and received numerous official honours; he died in Prague on 6 April 1958.
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- PoetryPrague with Fingers of RainPraha s prsty deštěVítězslav Nezval · 1936Literature