Background
Born as the son of textile worker, Halas worked as bookseller.
Born as the son of textile worker, Halas worked as bookseller.
He was self-taught, without higher education. After 1921 he started publishing in the communist newspapers Rovnost and Sršatec, and in 1926 he became an editor at the Prague publishing house Orbis. During World World War II he was active in the resistance movement, and after 1945 he was engaged at the Ministry of Information.
