Ladislav Fuks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ladislav Fuks

Czech bookwriter and writer

Date of Birth: 24-Sep-1923

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 19-Aug-1994

Profession: screenwriter, writer, science fiction writer

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Ladislav Fuks

  • Ladislav Fuks (September 24, 1923 in Prague – August 19, 1994 in Prague) was a Czech novelist.
  • He focused mainly on psychological novels, portraying the despair and suffering of people under German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He was born in Prague as the son of a police officer.
  • He studied the Gymnasium in Truhláršká ulice, where he also first witnessed Nazi persecution of his Jewish friends.
  • In 1942 he was forced to be a caretaker in HodonĂ­n, as a part of the Arbeitseinsatz. Later he studied philosophy, psychology and art history at the Philosophical faculty of Charles University in Prague, where, in 1949, he received a doctorate.
  • After his studies, he was a member of the National heritage administration and after 1959 he worked in the national gallery.
  • He became a professional writer in the 1960s.
  • He attracted much attention with his debut work, Pan Theodor Mundstock (Mr.
  • Theodore Mundstock), published in 1963, and a year later with his short story collection MĂ­ cernovlasĂ­ bratri (My dark-haired brothers). In the socialist period, he, according to his own words "preferred to choose conciliatoriness and toleration, against headless resistance and courage to fall in the resistance" ("radeji volil smĂ­rlivost a toleranci pred bezhlavĂ˝m vzdorem a odvahou padnout v odporu").
  • Some of his work from the 70s is strongly linked to the era in which they were created (for example, Návrat z ĹľitnĂ©ho pole (The return from the rye field) is a novel targeted against emigration after the 1948 communist coup).
  • He was also a member of the socialistic Svaz ceskĂ˝ch spisovatelu (Union of Czech Writers).
  • Although he had obtained some international recognition, in the last years of his life he was left alone and friendless.
  • He died in 1994 in his Prague apartment in Dejvice, in the street NárodnĂ­ obrany no.
  • 15.

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