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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Literature (114) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1980s (97) 1984 (9) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1900s (92) 1901 (10) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, eastern (65) Czech Republic (6) Žižkov (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1980s (66) 1986 (9) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, eastern (11) Czech Republic (2) Prague (2) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name S-Z (143) Y (10) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name S-Z (212) S (103) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name S-Z (69) Z (2) Yaroslav (2) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 80 - 89 (56) 84 (4) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations (123) Media and Communication Workers (117) Miscellaneous Media and Communication Workers (5) Interpreters and Translators (5) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, eastern (21) Czech Republic (2) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) B (102) Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (13) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards M-N (333) N (205) Národní umělec (1) O-P (364) O (205) Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1) Q-Z (398) R (196) Recipient of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st class (2) complete name: Jaroslav Seifert nobel prize: literature award year: 1984 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1984 was awarded to Jaroslav Seifert "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Yaroslav family name: Seifert occupation: writer occupation: poet occupation: translator occupation: journalist occupation: essayist description: Jaroslav Seifert was a Nobel Prize-winning Czechoslovak writer, poet and journalist. Born in Žižkov, a suburb of Prague in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, his first collection of poems was published in 1921. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), the editor of a number of communist newspapers and magazines - Rovnost, Sršatec, and Reflektor - and the employee of a communist publishing house. During the 1920s he was considered a leading representative of the Czechoslovakian artistic avant-garde. He was one of the founders of the journal Devětsil. In March 1929, he and six other writers left the KSČ after signing a manifesto protesting against Bolshevik tendencies in the new leadership of the party. He subsequently worked as a journalist in the social-democratic and trade union press during the 1930s and 1940s. In 1949 Seifert left journalism and began to devote himself exclusively to literature. His poetry was awarded important state prizes in 1936, 1955, and 1968, and in 1967 he was designated National Artist. He was the official Chairman of the Czechoslovak Writer's Union for several years (1968-70). In 1977 he was one of the signatories of Charter 77 in opposition to the government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Seifert was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1984. Due to bad health, he was not present at the award ceremony, and so his daughter received the Nobel Prize in his name. Even though it was a matter of great importance, there was only a brief remark of the award in the state-controlled media. He died in 1986, aged 84, and was buried at the municipal cemetery in Kralupy nad Vltavou (where his maternal grandparents originated from). His burial was marked by a high presence of secret police, who tried to suppress any hint of dissent on the part of mourners. pronunciation: (Czech: [ˈjaroslaf ˈsajfr̩t]) image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1984. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1984/summary/> date birth: 1901 date death: 1986 usual name: Jaroslav Seifert
