Vladislav Vančura

Vladislav Vančura was born on 23 June 1891 in Háj, in Silesia, into an old Protestant family. A graduate in medicine in 1921, he opened a practice with his wife in Zbraslav, near Prague, which he left in 1929 to live by writing alone. The first president of the avant-garde group Devětsil in 1920, he was expelled from the Communist Party in 1929 for having signed, with six other writers, a protest against its new leadership, and he made films in the thirties. A resistance member under the occupation, arrested in May 1942, he was shot in Prague on 1 June 1942.

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• NovelMarketa LazarováMarkéta LazarováVladislav Vančura · 1931LiteraturePublic domain