Josef Toman

Josef Toman (born April 6, 1899 in Prague ; † January 27, 1977 there ) was a Czech writer.

Toman attended the commercial academy in Prague until 1918. From 1923 to 1945 he worked for the publishing house of the Association of Visual Artists "Mánes", initially as a secretary, later as a director. During the Second World War the author was a member of the illegal committee of the intelligentsia . He has worked as a freelancer since 1953. His construction novel Where the foxes say goodnight, published in 1957, was the result of a long cohabitation with forest workers. Toman wrote this novel and the following works together with his wife Miroslava Tomanová . He traveled extensively through Europe, North Africa and Asia Minor in order to conduct environmental studies at the setting of his novels.

Works

• David Hron (1929)
• Man from Nowhere (1933)
• The Wasp's Nest (1938), in 1956 under the title house of cards issued
• Don Juan (1944, German 1957, 1970)
• Where the foxes say goodnight (1957, German 1963, 1964)
• After us the flood (1963, German 1968, 1974); also: Tiberius and Caligula
• Socrates (1975, German 1978)

literature

• G. Steiner, H. Greiner-Mai , W. Lehmann: Lexicon of foreign language writers , Volume 3 P – Z, VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1980

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Toman in the catalog of the German National Library