Hostovský, Egon
Person · http://data.judaicalink.org/data/ep/1094643
Also known as (1 names)
- –
- Egon Hostovský
(1908–1973), novelist. The youngest of eight children, Egon Hostovský was born in Hronov, a northeast Bohemian town of about 30,000 people, into a family that owned a small factory. He left university in 1930 to work as a journalist and editor at various publishing houses; he was also one of the editors of the Kalendář českožidovský (Czech Jewish Almanac) from 1931 to 1937. By his mid-twenties, he had already established himself as a major writer, and his Žhář (The Arsonist) won the state prize for literature in 1935.
Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Q1298660
Sources (1)
Hostovský, Egon
8 statements
- described at
- https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Hostovsky_Egon
- has abstract
- (1908–1973), novelist. The youngest of eight children, Egon Hostovský was born in Hronov, a northeast Bohemian town of about 30,000 people, into a family that owned a small factory. He left university in 1930 to work as a journalist and editor at various publishing houses; he was also one of the editors of the Kalendář českožidovský (Czech Jewish Almanac) from 1931 to 1937. By his mid-twenties, he had already established himself as a major writer, and his Žhář (The Arsonist) won the state prize for literature in 1935.
- title
- Hostovský, Egon
- alternative label
- Egon Hostovský
- preferred label
- Hostovský, Egon
- has related
- Kohn, Jindřich
- has related
- Memory
- has related
- Prague