Marie Pujmanová

Marie Pujmanová

Marie Pujmanová (born in Prague on 8 June 1893; died 19 May 1958[1]) was a Czech poet and novelist.[2]

She was a founding figure in Czech Socialist realism and has been referred to as a "tough-minded Stalinist" and critic of Václav Havel in his youth.[3] That stated, one of her own later works, had to be rewritten to be more firmly in line with the Party.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Marie Pujmanová". spisovatele.cz. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  2. ↑ Marcel Cornis-Pope; John Neubauer (2010). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Types and stereotypes. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 63 & 354. ISBN 90-272-3458-2.
  3. ↑ John Keane (2 October 2000). Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts. A&C Black. pp. 123 & 128. ISBN 978-0-7475-4838-6.
  4. ↑ Jiri Holy (9 August 2010). Writers Under Siege: Czech Literature Since 1945. Sussex Academic Press. pp. 3,24–25,140. ISBN 978-1-84519-440-6.
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