Helena Maliřová

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Helena

Helena Malířová (née Nosková; 31 October 1877 – 17 February 1940) was a Czech writer, journalist and translator.

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Biography Malířová was born in to the family of an accountant and state official. Her sister was the actress Růžena Nasková. In 1900 she began her career as a writer and met her future husband Jan Malíř whom she married in 1904; but their relationship did not last long because Malír died of tuberculosis in 1909. She volunteered as a nurse and reporter during the Serbian-Turkish War. She met her future partner, the writer Ivan Olbracht, in Vienna and under his influence joined the Social Democratic Party. In 1920 she took part in the Second Congress of the Communist International with Olbracht and Hugo Sonnenschein and was a founding member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Malířová, Olbracht and other well-known writers signed the 1929 Manifesto of the Seven in protest against the cultural policy of the new KSČ leadership. She along the other writers were expelled from the party. Malířová's work is characterized by her commitment to communism and the women's movement. Her theme is the struggle of women for self-realization and against social constraints. The literary high point of her work is the 1930s, when she begins to experiment with fragmentary and more complex literary forms. Malířová also…Citește mai mult