Ladislav Fuks

Film story contributor

1923 – 1994

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Who was Ladislav Fuks?

Ladislav Fuks was a Czech novelist. He focused mainly on psychological novels, portraying the despair and suffering of people under German occupation of Czechoslovakia.

He was born in Prague as the son of a police officer. He studied the Gymnasium in Truhlářšká ulice, where he also first witnessed Nazi persecution of his Jewish friends. In 1942 he was forced to be a caretaker in Hodonín, as a part of the Arbeitseinsatz.

Later he studied philosophy, psychology and art history at the Philosophical faculty of Charles University in Prague, where, in 1949, he received a doctorate. After his studies, he was a member of the National heritage administration and after 1959 he worked in the national gallery. He became a professional writer in the 1960s. He attracted much attention with his debut work, Pan Theodor Mundstock, published in 1963, and a year later with his short story collection Mí černovlasí bratři.

In the socialist period, he, according to his own words "preferred to choose conciliatoriness and toleration, against headless resistance and courage to fall in the resistance". Some of his work from the 70s is strongly linked to the era in which they were created. He was also a member of the socialistic Svaz českých spisovatelů. Although he had obtained some international recognition, in the last years of his life he was left alone and friendless. He died in 1994 in his Prague apartment in Dejvice, in the street Národní obrany no. 15.

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Born
Sep 24, 1923
Prague
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Nationality
  • Czech Republic
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Lived in
  • Prague
Died
Aug 19, 1994
Prague

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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