Marie Pujmanová (
née
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Hennerová; 8 June 1893, Prague – 19 May 1958, Prague) was a Czechoslovak poet and novelist.
She was a founding figure in Czechoslovak
Socialist realism
Socialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was the official style in that country between 1932 and 1988, as well as in other socialist countries after World War II. Socialist realism is ch ...
and has been referred to as a "tough-minded
Stalinist
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".
That stated, one of her own later works, had to be rewritten to be more firmly in line with the Party.
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Writers from Prague
Socialist realism writers
Czechoslovak poets
Czechoslovak novelists
Czechoslovak women novelists
Czechoslvoak surrealist writers
1893 births
1958 deaths