František Listopad (26 November 1921 – 1 October 2017) (born Jiří Synek, in
Portugal
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known as Jorge Listopad)
[Richter, Václav (2007)]
Le poète Frantisek Listopad lauréat du Prix Jaroslav Seifert
, radio.cz, retrieved 2010-01-22 was a
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poet, prose writer, essayist, theatre and television director, promoter of Czech literature and culture abroad, regarded as an expert on Central European thought and cultural output.
Biography
František Listopad was born on 26 November 1921 in
Prague
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and died in
Lisbon on 1 October 2017. His nom de plume of Listopad is Czech for November, the month of his birth.
[Richter, Václav (2004)]
Frantisek Listopad, l'écrivain entre la Tchéquie et le Portugal
, radio.cz, retrieved 2010-01-22 After graduating from Jirásek Grammar School, he studied Aesthetics and Literary Science at the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University.
During the war he was a member of the illegal Freedom Movement („''Hnutí za svobodu''“), and his father and sister were imprisoned. He was awarded Czechoslovak, Portuguese, Yugoslav, and French military decorations.
He was the co-founder of the daily newspaper Mladá fronta. In 1947, he was the press attaché of the Czechoslovak Embassy in Paris and an editor of the Parisian weekly periodical Parallele 50. After February 1948 he was recalled, but remained in Paris.
He worked for ORTF until 1958, when he left for Portugal, where he has lived since.
In 2007, he was awarded the literary prize by La fondation de la Charte 77.
References
External links
Czech biographyFrantišek Listopad at Czechoslovak book network Baila.net
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1921 births
2017 deaths
Czech poets
Czech male poets
Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic)
Czechoslovak writers
Czechoslovak expatriates in France
Immigrants to Portugal
Portuguese people of Czech descent
Writers from Prague
Charles University alumni