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Viktor Dyk
Born	(1877-12-31)31 December 1877 Pšovka u Mělníka, Austria-Hungary
Died	14 May 1931(1931-05-14) (aged 53) Lopud, Yugoslavia
Occupation	Poet, Politician, Playwright, prose writer, journalist

Viktor Dyk (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvɪktor ˈdɪk]) (December 31, 1877, Pšovka u Mělníka, Austria-Hungary – May 14, 1931, near the island of Lopud, Yugoslavia) was a well-known Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer.

Viktor Dyk studied at a gymnasium in Prague (one of his teachers was Alois Jirásek) and then at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague.

In 1911, he became involved in politics and joined the Státoprávně pokroková strana. During the First World War, he was imprisoned in Vienna for his resistance activities against Austria-Hungary. In 1918, he co-founded the Czechoslovak National Democratic Party (in Czech: Československá národní demokracie).

His political views were conservative and nationalist. In the times of the First Republic of Czechoslovakia, Viktor Dyk was one of the prominent intellectual opponents of the leftish president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

Viktor Dyk died of a heart failure while swimming in the sea near the island of Lopud.

Works [link]

Monument to Viktor Dyk in Mělník

Memorial plaque, Vinohrady

Grave of Viktor Dyk at the Olšanské hřbitovy

Poetry [link]

• A porta inferi, 1897
• Síla života, 1898
• Marnosti, 1900
• Satiry a sarkasmy, 1905
• Milá sedmi loupežníků, 1906
• Pohádky z naší vesnice, 1910
• Giuseppe Moro, 1911
• Zápas Jiřího Macků, 1916
• Noci chiméry, 1917
• Devátá vlna 1930
• Lehké a těžké kroky 1915
• Anebo 1917
• Okno 1921
• Poslední rok 1922

Prose [link]

• Stud, 1900
• Hučí jez a jiné prózy, 1903
• Konec Hackenschmidův, 1904
• Prosinec, 1906
• Prsty Habakukovy, 1906
• Píseň o vrbě, 1908
• Příhody, 1911
• Krysař, 1915
• Tajemná dobrodružství Alexeje Iványče Kozulinova, 1923
• Tichý dům, 1921
• Zlý vítr, 1922
• Prsty Habakukovy, 1925
• Můj přítel Čehona, 1925
• Dědivadelní hra, 1927
• Holoubek Kuzma, 1928
• Soykovy děti, 1929

Political literature [link]

• Ad usum pana presidenta republiky (1929 – criticism of Edvard Beneš and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
• O národní stát (posthumously 1932–1938, 7 books od Dyk's political writing from 1917–1931)

Dramas [link]

• Epizoda, 1906
• Posel, 1907
• Zmoudření Dona Quijota, 1913
• Veliký mág, 1914
• Zvěrstva, 1919
• Ondřej a drak, 1919
• Revoluční trilogie, 1921
• Napravený plukovník Švec, 1929 – support of Rudolf Medek

Memoirs [link]

• Vzpomínky a komentáře, 1927

See also [link]

	conservatism portal
	Poetry portal

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• List of Czech writers
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