Alois Jirásek

Alois Jirásek (Czech pronunciation: [ˈalojs ˈjɪraːsɛk]) (August 23, 1851, Hronov, Kingdom of Bohemia – March 12, 1930, Prague) was a Czech writer, author of historical novels and plays. Jirásek was a secondary-school teacher until his retirement in 1909. He wrote a series of historical novels imbued with faith in his nation and in progress toward freedom and justice. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1918, 1919, 1921 and 1930.^[1]

Bibliography

House where Alois Jirasek was born.

Novels

• Na dvoře vévodském (1877)
• Slavný den (1879)
• Konec a počátek (1879, about Unity of the Brethren)
• Ráj světa (I880)
• Poklad (1881)
• Skály (1887)
• Poklad (1885)
• Na dvoře vévodském (1881)
• V cizích službách (1883), set in post-Hus times
• Psohlavci (1884), about the Chod rebellion
• Maryla (1887), set in post-Hus times
• Na Ostrově (1888)
• Nevolnice (1888), set in pre-Christian times
• Old Bohemian Legends (1894, Staré pověsti české), including The Maidens' War (English translation), on the legend of Šárka
• Between the Currents (1887–1890, Mezi proudy), a trilogy on the times of Jan Hus
• Against Everyone (1893, Proti všem)
• The Brethren (1899–1908, Bratrstvo)
• U Nás (1896–1903)
• Darkness (1914, Temno, novel from post 1620 counter-reformation period)
• F. L. Věk (1888–1906, 5 volumes, about the beginnings of the Czech National Revival)
• The Philosophers' Story (1878, Filosofská historie, about the revolutionary year of 1848)
• Husitský král (1919 – not finished, about George of Poděbrady)

Dramas

• Jan Hus (1911)
• Jan Žižka (1903)
• Jan Roháč (1914)
• Lantern (1905)
• Vojnarka (1891)
• Father (1895, Otec)

Notes

References

•  "Jirásek, Alois". New International Encyclopedia. 1905. 

See also

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• List of Czech writers
• Alois Jirásek at Czechoslovak book network Baila.net