František Listopad

The recorded working language is French, Portuguese and Czech. The field of work recorded is poetry, creative and professional writing and opinion journalism. Places of work recorded in the authority are Brno. Employment is recorded with Technical University of Lisbon. Distinctions recorded are Czech Medal of Merit, Jaroslav Seifert Prize, Prémio Autores and Gratias Agit.

František Listopad was born on 26 November 1921 in Prague and died in Lisbon on 1 October 2017. His nom de plume of Listopad is Czech for November, the month of his birth. After graduating from Jirásek Grammar School, he studied Aesthetics and Literary Science at the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University. During the war he was a member of the illegal Freedom Movement („Hnutí za svobodu“), and his father and sister were imprisoned. He was awarded Czechoslovak, Portuguese, Yugoslav, and French military decorations. He was the co-founder of the daily newspaper Mladá fronta. In 1947, he was the press attaché of the Czechoslovak Embassy in Paris and an editor of the Parisian weekly periodical Parallele 50. After February 1948 he was recalled, but remained in Paris. He worked for ORTF until 1958, when he left for Portugal, where he lived for the rest of his life. He wrote poetry and short poetic fiction in Czech and essays and plays in Portuguese. In 2007, he was awarded the literary prize by La fondation de la Charte 77.