Jaroslav SeifertEarly Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
Nobel Prize winner Jaroslav Seifert's poetry is strongly situated within the Czech literary tradition of Poetism, which evolved into a playful, light-hearted refuge from world history while maintaining an edge of social consciousness.
Czech writer, poet and journalist, born 23 September 1901 in Žižkov, Austria-Hungary (today Czech Republic) and died 10 January 1986 in Prague, Czechoslovakia (today Czech Republic). He was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1984..
