Nobel Literature Laureate Seifert Dies

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia — Jaroslav Seifert, winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize for Literature and the nation’s best-loved contemporary poet, died early this morning, his physician said. He was 84.

Seifert had been taken to Strahov Hospital on Thursday after suffering an apparent heart attack, Dr. Albert Valek said, and died in his sleep. Seifert wrote poetry for more than six decades, surviving Nazi dictatorship, Stalinist purges and communist power struggles.