Marie Pujmanová

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Marie Pujmanová (née Hennerová; 8 June 1893, Prague – 19 May 1958, Prague) was a Czechoslovak poet and novelist.{{cite book|author1=Marcel Cornis-Pope|author2=John Neubauer|title=History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Types and stereotypes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YINYl4iv4ecC&pg=PA354|year=2010|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=978-90-272-3458-2|pages=63 & 354}}

She was a founding figure in Czechoslovak Socialist realism and has been referred to as a "tough-minded Stalinist".{{cite book|author=John Keane|title=Václav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kUyO2tNkAuYC&pg=PA123|date=2 October 2000|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-7475-4838-6|pages=123 & 128}} That stated, one of her own later works, had to be rewritten to be more firmly in line with the Party.{{cite book|author=Jiri Holy|title=Writers Under Siege: Czech Literature Since 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z7UdpVuvYjkC&pg=PA24|date=9 August 2010|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=978-1-84519-440-6|pages=3,24–25,140}}

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