František Listopad (November 26, 1921) (born Jiří Synek, in Portugal known as Jorge Listopad) is a Czech 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. Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Czech (ˈʧɛk čeština ˈʧɛʃcɪna in Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers it is the majority language in the
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Biography
František Listopad was born on 26 November 1921 in Prague. Events 43 BC - The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian" later "Caesar Augustus" Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Prague (ˈprɑːg Praha (ˈpraɦa see also other names) is the Capital and Largest city of the Czech Republic. 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, 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. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. After February 1948 he was recalled, but remained in Paris. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
He worked for ORTF until 1958, when he left for Portugal. Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He set up a television station in Oporto and integrated himself into the creative flows of Portuguese culture. He published texts inter alia about Milena Jesenská, Franz Kafka, and Bohumil Hrabal. Milena Jesenská (ˈmɪlɛna ˈjɛsɛnskaː ( Aug 10, 1896, Prague – May 17, 1944, Ravensbrück Bohumil Hrabal (ˈboɦumɪl ˈɦrabal ( March 28 1914, Brno - February 3 1997, Prague) was a famous Czech He translated Czech poetry, directed productions of Hašek and Havel, and as a correspondent of Portuguese newspapers and an editor of the weekly Jornal de Letras he wrote about Czech cultural issues. He organized a six-month course of Czech music. He received three state awards (literature, drama), four arts press (drama, television production), the Prix de Rome (Venice), and the Bologna prize for children's literature. In Czechoslovakia, he was awarded the Prize of the Academy of Sciences and Arts (1947) and the Franz Kafka Prize (2002). The Franz Kafka Prize is an international literary prize in the Czech Republic presented in honour of Franz Kafka, the German language Novelist See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
As a university professor, he was invited by the anthropologist Jorge Dias to establish a Departement of Slavonic Literature and Sociology (Universidade Técnica, Universidade Nova). For the twelve years prior to his retirement, he was the principal of five art schools run by the State Conservatory. He was the director of the National Theatre "experimental stage".
Works
He is the author of 64 plays and 12 operas and has published more than 50 books written in Czech, Portuguese, and French, which have been translated into various languages (a German edition of an anthology of his poetry is now being prepared). Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. The second volume of his collected works is being published in Portuguese (three volumes have been published in Czech).
Influence and recognition
František Listopad'scontribution lies not just in the highly regarded quality of his cultural output, but also in his selfless organizing and teaching activities. He represents Czech culture, disseminating its growing influence and weighty inner claim to have its own inimitable, sensitive voice in the concert of the world.
On the occasion of the National Holiday of the Czech Republic in 2001, he was decorated by the then President Václav Havel. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Václav Havel, GCB, CC, ( (born October 5, 1936) is a Czech Playwright Writer and Politician His achievements have also been recognized by Charles University, and Masaryk University in Brno has conferred an honorary doctorate on him.
In the Oxford Who's Who he was named the international personality of 2004, and he also merits his own entry in the Cambridge Dictionary.
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