Jan Morávek (writer)

Jan Moravek

Jan Morávek (born May 1, 1888 in Kamenný Přívoz , † April 4, 1958 in Prague ) was a Czech writer and journalist .

Life

The child of a butcher first attended industrial school , but his main interests were literature and the theater, in which he continues to work even after he has dropped out of school. After a break due to military service, he has been playing on stages in Nachod and Pilsen since 1912 . In 1914 he moved in. After the war he got an engagement at the Divadlo na Vinohradech theater , later with Karel Hašler in his Lucerna .

In 1919 he left the stage and started working as an editor at the magazine Obrana venkova and Kalendář republiky (Calendar of the Republic). Until 1941 he worked as editor-in-chief of Pražský ilustrovaný zpravodaj (Prague Illustrated Reporter) at the Melantrich publishing house under the direction of Jaroslav Šalda .

Today the author is hardly known, but at the time he led the bestseller list together with Jan Vrba , Jindřich Šimon Baar , Josef Knap , Ivan Olbracht and Karel Čapek .

Works

Jan Morávek wrote over twenty novels, numerous short stories, children's books, poems, plays and memoirs. Be realistic prose describing life in the village.

stories

• Nový Cyrano a jiné povídky o lásce (1916)
• Děda Zdravíčko (1958)

Novels

• Špatný voják (1930) (autobiography)
• Ohnivá lázeň (1931)
• Plavci na Sázavě (1932) (his most successful book)
• Divočina (1933)
• Skalní Plemeno (1934)
• Byl na Sázavě přívoz (1935).
• Dědičný hřích (1936)
• Mamánek (1937)
• Srdce na zámek (1937)
• Jediná cesta (1937)
• Ztracený člověk (1940)
• Opuštěná řeka (1941)
• Rybářova žena (1941)
• Pod mraky (1943)
• Chléb odříkaný (1944).
• Zpáteční voda (1947)
• Veselá ves (1948)
• U nás na Sázavě (1957)
• Kuropění (1985)

Web links

• Literature and other media by and about Jan Morávek in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic