1. Josef Hora was a Czechoslovak poet, literary critic and journalist.
14 Facts About Josef Hora
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Josef Hora was born in Dobrin, Litomerice District, Bohemia in a farmstead, which now houses the Museum of Josef Hora.
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Josef Hora joined the social democratic party in 1912 and started writing for its papers and magazines.
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Josef Hora became an editor of a local paper where he met Zdenka Janouskova.
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Josef Hora married her in 1919 and they had a daughter.
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Josef Hora made a trip to the USSR in 1925 that showed him not only the successes of the new regime but its problems with democracy.
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Josef Hora wrote an essay about the situation called Literature and Politics.
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In 1933, Josef Hora became an editor of the cultural pages of the Ceske slovo newspaper and he edited several literary journals.
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Josef Hora was elected president of the Society of Czech Writers in 1934 and worked against the fascist menace from outside and inside.
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Josef Hora was one of the seven funeral orators above the coffin of Karel Capek.
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Josef Hora died shortly after the liberation of Czechoslovakia in Prague at the age of 53 and was buried in Slavin.
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Josef Hora was counted among Communist writers in Czechoslovakia and his disillusionment with Stalinism was concealed.
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Josef Hora's work created a link with Czech prewar modernism, closely associated with the literary trends of its time.
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Josef Hora always stood apart the modern -isms and literary groups such as Devetsil.