Marie Pujmanová

Marie Pujmanová

Marie Pujmanová (née Hennerová; 8 June 1893, Prague – 19 May 1958, Prague) was a Czechoslovak poet and novelist.[1]

She was a founding figure in Czechoslovak Socialist realism and has been referred to as a "tough-minded Stalinist".[2] That stated, one of her own later works, had to be rewritten to be more firmly in line with the Party.[3]

References

  1. ^ Marcel Cornis-Pope; John Neubauer (2010). History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Types and stereotypes. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 63 & 354. ISBN 978-90-272-3458-2.
  2. ^ John Keane (2 October 2000). Václav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts. A&C Black. pp. 123 & 128. ISBN 978-0-7475-4838-6.
  3. ^ Jiri Holy (9 August 2010). Writers Under Siege: Czech Literature Since 1945. Sussex Academic Press. pp. 3, 24–25, 140. ISBN 978-1-84519-440-6.