Jaroslav Seifert was a writer, poet, and journalist. He was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in 1901, he was the first Czech winner of the prize and was one of the original members of the Charter 77 human rights movement. He died in 1986.
‘In the winter of 1912 a small man in a Persian lamb-skin hat was also skating there.’
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