František Kubka

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František Kubka

František Kubka (born March 4, 1894 in Prague ; † January 7, 1969 there ) was a Czech journalist, writer, poet, translator and politician.

Life

During the First World War he enlisted in the Czechoslovak legions in Russia. In the second half of the 1920s, Kubka was a participant in the meetings of the informal Stammtisch group Prague intellectual Pátečníci . From 1927 he worked as an editor for the Prague press . From 1946 he worked as ambassador to Bulgaria for three years .

Works

Kubka wrote numerous literature studies and drafts of memoirs. He also translated from Russian and German. He wrote travel reports about Russia ( Barvy východu - The Colors of the East ) based on his experiences during his captivity in the First World War. During the Second World War he published his most famous historical novels ( Skytský jezdec, Pražské nokturno, Karlštejnské virgilie ). Some of these books are based on medieval legends, others date from the Gothic , Renaissance and Baroque periods . After the World War he continued the direction of fiction historiography with novels. Kubka described the development of Bohemia after 1848 in a novel cycle.

Works in detail

  • Eyewitness of my time . Artia Verlag, 1964
  • Luck in the storm . Volk und Welt publishing house, 1957
  • How the soldier Ivan Ivanovich came to a cross . Insel-Verlag, 1962
  • Evenings on the Black Sea . Insel-Verlag, 1954
  • Karlstein Vigils . Rütten & Loening

Remarks

  1. ↑ The year 1961 is also occasionally found as the date of death, but this is incorrect.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Václav Stehlík: Stari Friday Men Novodobí a Zpátečníci! , online at: vasevec.parlamentnilisty.cz / ...

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personal data
SURNAME Kubka, František
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech journalist, writer, poet and translator and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 7th January 1969
Place of death Prague