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Bohumil Hlaváček was born on September 14, 1934 in Pařezská Lhota. He comes from a poor family and both his parents were employed as workers. Bohumil had a total of eleven siblings. He learnt the optician’s trade, but he was interested in working as a journalist and already as a young man he was contributing to some periodicals. When he was seventeen years old, he became a correspondent for the Liberec edition of the Mladá Fronta newspaper. In order to be able to become a member of the editorial staff, he had to gain some experience with manual labour as well. He thus participated on the construction of the New Ironworks of Klement Gottwald in Ostrava, he was helping to build rail tracks leading to the blast furnace and he worked on the construction of concrete foundations of furnaces in the steelworks. He joined the Czech Press Office in 1953 after a one-year work for the daily “Den” in Ostrava -Kunčice.While working for the Czech Press Office, he also briefly served in their regional departments in Ostrava and Zlín and then from 1957 until 1999 he was working in Brno. His work as a journalist is recorded in tens of thousands of news articles in the archive of the Czech Press Office. He focused mainly on culture and agriculture. Simultaneously with his job he also managed to complete studies at the Law Faculty of Charles University in Prague and to defend his thesis there. The thesis titled “Press Correction” was not allowed to be published due to the events in 1968 and it was banned for many years after. Among other, Bohumil also cooperated with organizers of the International Folklore Festival in Strážnice. He received a number of awards for his work as a journalist, including the Brno City Prize in 2007 and the extraordinary award of the editor-in-chief of the Czech Press Office for his lifelong work. In 2017 he was decorated with the South Moravia Region Prize. He received the Ferdinand Boura Prize for his contribution to journalism and an extraordinary award for his lifelong work for the Czech Press Office.
