Franti�ek Hrub�n (September 17, 1910 - March 1, 1971) - Czech poet, novelist, playwright and translator. His poem Romance for Bugle has enjoyed working under the direction of film director Otakar Vavra.

Franti�ek Hrub�n was born in a family of builders in Prague, the eldest of three children. Then, when his father had to enlist in the war (1914), the family lived with my grandfather Lesany in Pos�zav�.

In 1922 he joined the high school in Prague, and later tried to study philosophy and pedagogy at Charles University, but failed. In late 1934 he became an employee of the Central Library of Prague, and later worked at the Ministry of Information. After World War II, in 1946 he became a professional writer.

Publish began in 1928, often under pseudonyms.
Hrub�n take credit for founding the children's magazine Mate��dou�ka, which is still published. His extensive work for adults consists mainly of lyric poetry. The first collection of poems Sung from afar he published in 1933.

After getting off to II. Congress of the Czechoslovak Writers (1956), he criticized linking literature with politics, your time earned Ineligibility. But was soon able to publish texts for children. And in this sense has become one of the most important Czech composers. His nursery rhymes, poems, riddles and tales influenced several generations and are still being published.

POEM Romance for Bugle became a model for the eponymous film Otakar Vavra, which Hrub�n himself wrote the screenplay. Bitterly romantic story, inspired by the author's adolescence and his first love they experienced Lesany, was filmed in 1966.

Franti�ek Hrub�n generate virtually stopped until death, which he caught in 1971 in the Czech Budejovice.