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Jaroslav Seifert

1901 - 1986

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Jaroslav Seifert (Czech: [ˈjaroslaf ˈsajfr̩t] ; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jaroslav Seifert is the 678th most popular writer (down from 571st in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 65th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Czech Writer.

Jaroslav Seifert is most famous for being a Czechoslovakian poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1984. He was also a translator and journalist.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 678 out of 7,302. Before him are Premchand, Leo Africanus, Max Frisch, Bernard Gui, Longus, and Faxian. After him are Zecharia Sitchin, Olga Tokarczuk, Gerald Gardner, Pietro Metastasio, Ferenc Molnár, and Joseph Murphy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 47. Before him are Robert Bresson, Arthur Liebehenschel, José Leandro Andrade, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Jascha Heifetz, and Alfred Tarski. After him are Milton H. Erickson, Henri Lefebvre, Walter Hallstein, Eisaku Satō, José Nasazzi, and Carl Barks. Among people deceased in 1986, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 27. Before him are Georgia O'Keeffe, Henry Moore, Michael J. Smith, Leonid Kantorovich, Georges Dumézil, and Celâl Bayar. After him are Harold Macmillan, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Chiune Sugihara, Erich Koch, Benny Goodman, and Stanley Rous.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 80 out of 1,200. Before him are Franz Werfel (1890), Martina Navratilova (1956), Jan Masaryk (1886), Karl Kraus (1874), Maria Christina of Austria (1858), and Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1696). After him are Ottokar I of Bohemia (1155), Jobst of Moravia (1351), Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644), Max Wertheimer (1880), and Ludmila of Bohemia (860).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 12. Before him are Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), and Karl Kraus (1874). After him are Julius Fučík (1903), Jan Neruda (1834), Adalbert Stifter (1805), Alfred Kubin (1877), Cosmas of Prague (1045), and Josef Čapek (1887).

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