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Vilém Závada

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however was not involved in party politics. After a period of simplistic acceptance of the optimism of post-war conditions, at the end of his life he returned to the poetry of existential depth and tragedy of life.
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Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences) . History of the literatures of the Western and Southern Slavs
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in 1966 he was awarded the position of National Artist. In 1969, he was awarded in the anniversary of the 100th anniversary of
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His son Jan Závada (1933–2024) was a Czech molecular oncologist, expert in virus genetics.
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Závada was born in to the family of a metal worker, his father died during the
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Závada died in 1982 in Prague at the age of 77 and was buried at the
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In the 30s Závada mostly worked as a magazine editor. After the
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Závada in 1930
Ostrava
Austria-Hungary
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Vyšehrad Cemetery
Czech
Faculty of Arts of the Charles University
First World War
Charles University
Poetism
Panychida
invasion of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
National Library of Czechoslovakia
Otokar Březina
Vyšehrad Cemetery


"Kdo byl Vilém Závada"
"Jan Závada, founding member of the Learned Society, died at the age of 90"
Learned Society of the Czech Republic
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1905 births
1982 deaths
Writers from Ostrava
Czech male poets
Czech poets
Czech translators
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia members

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