Marie Pujmanová Explained

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]

Notes and References

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