Jaroslav Seifert
September 23, 1901 – January 10, 1986
Place of Birth:
Žižkov, Austria-Hungary
Place of Death:
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Jaroslav Seifert (ˈjaroslaf ˈsajfr̩t; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Nobel Prize–winning Czechoslovak writer, poet and journalist. In 1984 Jaroslav Seifert won the 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".