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• Winner of Statni Cena za Literaturu (Czech Republic State Prize for Literature) 1931
• Winner of Statni Cena za Literaturu (Czech Republic State Prize for Literature) 1931.

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[T]his is a remarkable and unusual book, particularly since archaic text is relieved with beautiful writing and contemporary asides. [ ] Marketa Lazarova is a little treasure of a book for its historical value, the lusty tale it tells, and the literary worth of Vladislav Van ura s writing. NewPages

[T]his is a remarkable and unusual book, particularly since archaic text is relieved with beautiful writing and contemporary asides. [...] Marketa Lazarova is a little treasure of a book for its historical value, the lusty tale it tells, and the literary worth of Vladislav Vančura's writing. - NewPages

[T]his is a remarkable and unusual book, particularly since archaic text is relieved with beautiful writing and contemporary asides. [...] Marketa Lazarova is a little treasure of a book for its historical value, the lusty tale it tells, and the literary worth of Vladislav Vancura's writing. - NewPages

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Novelist, playwright, film director, screenwriter, Vladislav Vancura was born in 1891 in Ha¡j (Silesia) into a family with ancestral roots in the nobility. A founding member of the Czech avant-garde artists group DevÄ>tsil in 1920, he served as its first chairman and was instrumental in formulating its Poetist program for literature. Vancura's most acclaimed work, Marketa Lazarova, brought him renown as an innovator of the first order and Czechoslovakia's State Prize for Literature in 1931. He was arrested on May 12, 1942, by the Gestapo, tortured, and executed on June 1, 1942.

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