caption death_date death_place birth_place imagesize awards nationality birth_date signature image article_title name occupation
jaroslav seifert 1981 photo hana hamplová 10 january 1986 prague , czechoslovakia Žižkov , austria-hungary 250px nobel prize in literature 1984 czech 23 september 1901 signature of jaroslav seifert.jpg jaroslav seifert 1981 foto hana hamplová.jpg jaroslav seifert
 jaroslav seifert writer , poet , journalist
jaroslav seifert

jaroslav seifert -lrb- ; 23 september 1901 -- 10 january 1986 -rrb- was a nobel prize -- winning czechoslovak writer , poet and journalist .
born in Žižkov , a suburb of prague in what was then part of austria-hungary , his first collection of poems was published in 1921 .
he was a member of the communist party , the editor of a number of communist newspapers and magazines -- `` rovnost '' , `` sršatec '' , and `` reflektor '' -- and the employee of a communist publishing house .
during the 1920s he was considered a leading representative of the czechoslovakian artistic avant-garde .
he was one of the founders of the journal devětsil .
in march 1929 , he and six other important communist writers left the communist party for signing a manifesto protesting against bolshevik tendencies in the new leadership of the communist party of czechoslovakia .
he subsequently worked as a journalist in the social-democratic and trade union press during the 1930s and 1940s .
in 1949 seifert left journalism and began to devote himself exclusively to literature .
his poetry was awarded important state prizes in 1936 , 1955 , and 1968 , and in 1967 he was designated national artist .
he was the official chairman of the czechoslovak writer 's union for several years -lrb- 1968 -- 70 -rrb- .
in 1977 he was one of the signatories of charter 77 in opposition to the repressive regime of the time .
seifert was awarded the nobel prize in literature in 1984 .
due to bad health , he was not present at the award ceremony , and so his daughter received the nobel prize in his name .
even though it was a matter of great importance , there was only a brief remark of the award in the state-controlled media .
he died in 1986 , aged 84 , and was buried at the municipal cemetery in kralupy nad vltavou -lrb- where his maternal grandparents originated from -rrb- .
his burial was marked by a high presence of secret police , who tried to suppress any hint of dissent on the part of mourners .
