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Ferdinand Peroutka was a Czech journalist, writer and dramatist. After the First World War, he worked as an editor-in-chief of the Tribuna journal, and later wrote commentaries for the newspaper Lidové Noviny. In 1924 he founded the revue Přítomnost, and worked as its editor-in-chief until 1939. Peroutka was also the author of several books, for example the unfinished work Budování státu (Building of the State) about the birth of the first Czechoslovak Republic. Upon the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Peroutka was arrested and held in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps until 1945. After the war, he was a member of the Czechoslovak Provisional National Assembly. Peroutka, who was an opponent of communism, was excluded from the Union of Czech Journalists and Union of Czech Writers in February 1948. Thus, he decided to emigrate to the West and he left Czechoslovakia in April 1948. He initially lived in Great Britain, and later moved to the USA. In the United States he participated in the foundation of Radio Free Europe, and in 1951 he was appointed director of its Czechoslovak section. He also became a member of the Council of Free Czechoslovakia, which represented Czechoslovak democratic politicians who left their country for exile after 1948. In exile, Peroutka continued with his literary activities as well. He published, among others, a novel entitled Oblak a valčík (The Cloud and the Waltz) based on his play of the same name. Nowadays, he is considered one of the most important Czech journalists of the twentieth century. Thus, since 1995 the “Ferdinand Peroutka Award” has been given to prominent journalists and publicists in the Czech Republic.

Perović graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1978 in Podgorica. As a student, he was active in a number of social projects, including Mi youth magazine, Radio Cetinje, and ARS – Review of Culture, Art and Science. Perović was a member of the League of Communists of Montenegro and belonged to a younger, more liberal wing of the party. He was also co-founder and president of the Literary Municipality of Cetinje publishing house. He was driven to enter the publishing business by his interests in literature, poetry, and politics opposed to communist ideology, such as the issue of national politics.

The year 1988 was crucial for Slavko Perović. After his decision as the president of the Literary Municipality of Cetinje to publish the book Etnogenezofobija by Savo Brković, Perović was dismissed from his position there and from the editorial board of ARS, and it eventually led to the closure of the publishing house.

Because of his “inappropriate” political engagement, Slavko Perović was dismissed from his position as the Municipal Public Prosecutor, which he performed prior to the scandal with publishing Etnogenezofobija and expelled from the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Montenegro.

Throughout the 1990s, Perović participated in the anti-war movement that actively opposed Montenegrin involvement in the Yugoslav Wars.

Researcher on folk music and choreographer Ernő Pesovár was born on 5 September 1926 in Herend. He died on 2 March 2008 in Budapest.

He began pursuing studies in Budapest in 1946 and graduated with a degree in ethnology and museology in 1951. Gyula Ortutay, Lajos Vargyas, István Tálasi, and László Vajda were among his professors. He wrote his dissertation in 1966.

Researcher on folk dance and ethnographer and museologist Ferenc Pesovár was born on 23 April 1930 in Herend and died on 27 February 1983 in Veszprém.

He pursued studies in Veszprém at the Piarist Grammar School. He started to learn about folk dances from István Molnár. He was a dancer with the Honvéd Dance Group. He studied ethnography and museology at Pázmány Péter University. He also worked at the Museum of Ethnography, and in 1955, he began working at the Kiskun Museum in Kiskunfélegyháza. From 1957 to 1983, he worked at the King Stephen of Hungary Museum in Székesfehérvár. He did research on the folk dance culture of Transdanubia, Transylvania, Somogy County, and Szatmár County. Like his brother Ernő, he also supported the folk revival movements and took part in the folk dance house movement.