Jan Tesař
Jan Tesař was a Czech historian and writer. He was a dissident in the times of communist Czechoslovakia.
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Miloš Urban
Vystudoval moderní filologii na katedrách anglistiky a nordistiky na FF UK v Praze (1986–1992), v letech 1992–2000 pracoval jako redaktor v nakladatelství Mladá fronta, od roku 2001 v nakladatelství Argo, kde rok zastával funkci šéfredaktora.
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Vydal šest románů, několik novel a sbírku povídek; jeho knihy byly přeloženy do němčiny, španělštiny, holandštiny, maďarštiny, ruštiny a italštiny. Napsal také divadelní hry (Trochu lásky a Nože a růže) a několik povídek otištěných v různých časopisech (např. Host) a v povídkových knihách nakladatelství Listen. -
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and leftism; and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, ecofascism and capitalism. As of 2021, she is an associate professor, and professor of climate justice at the University of British Columbia, co-directing a Centre for Climate Justice.
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Klein first became known internationally for her alter-globalization book No Logo (1999). The Take (2004), a documentary film about Argentine workers' self-managed factories, written by her and directed by her husband Avi Lewis, further increased her profile. The Shock Doctrine (2007), a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics, solidified he -
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. Parker). All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.
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Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
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Kundera wrote in Czech and French. He revises the French translations of all his books; people therefore consider these original works as not translations. He is best known for his novels, including The Joke (1967), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), all of which exhibit his extreme though often comical skepticism. -
Sven Lindqvist
Dr. Sven Lindqvist was a Swedish author of mostly non-fiction.
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He held a PhD in History of literature from Stockholm University (his thesis, in 1966, was on Vilhelm Ekelund) and a 1979 honorary doctorate from Uppsala University. In 1960–1961, he worked as cultural attaché at the Swedish embassy in Beijing, China. From 1956–86 he was married to Cecilia Lindqvist, with whom he had two children. He was married to the economist Agneta Stark since 1986. He lived in the Södermalm area of central Stockholm. -
Annie Ernaux
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.
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Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé was a Guadeloupean, French language author of historical fiction, best known for her novel Segu. Maryse Condé was born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, the youngest of eight children. In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon and Sorbonne in Paris, where she majored in English. In 1959, she married Mamadou Condé, an Guinean actor. After graduating, she taught in Guinea, Ghana, and Senegal. In 1981, she divorced, but the following year married Richard Philcox, English language translator of most of her novels.
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Condé's novels explore racial, gender, and cultural issues in a variety of historical eras and locales, including the Salem witch trials in I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem and the 19th century -
Kentaro Miura
Kentarou Miura (三浦建太郎) was born in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, in 1966. He is left-handed. In 1976, at the early age of 10, Miura made his first Manga, entitled "Miuranger", that was published for his classmates in a school publication; the manga ended up spanning 40 volumes. In 1977, Miura created his second manga called Ken e no michi (剣への道 The Way to the Sword), using Indian ink for the first time. When he was in middle school in 1979, Miura's drawing techniques improved greatly as he started using professional drawing techniques. His first dōjinshi was published, with the help of friends, in a magazine in 1982.
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That same year, in 1982, Miura enrolled in an artistic curriculum in high school, where he and his classmates started p -
Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante began writing short stories which appeared in various publications and periodicals, including periodicals for children, in the 1930s. Her first book was a collection of some of the stories, Il Gioco Segreto, published in 1941. It was followed in 1942 by a children's book, La Bellissime avventure di Caterì dalla Trecciolina (rewritten in 1959 as Le straordinarie avventure di Caterina).
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She married the novelist Alberto Moravia in 1941, and through him she met many of the leading Italian thinkers and writers of the day as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dario Bellezza, Sandro Penna, Attilio Bertolucci, Umberto Saba and many others. -
Pavel Kohout
Pavel Kohout is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring exponent and dissident in the 1970s until he was expelled to Austria. He was a founding member of the Charter 77 movement.
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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognised literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1965), which he labeled a "non-fiction novel." At least 20 films and TV dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
He was born as Truman Streckfus Persons to a salesman Archulus Persons and young Lillie Mae. His parents divorced when he was four and he went to live with his mother's relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. He was a lonely child who learned to read and write by himself before entering school. In 1933, he moved to New York City to live wi -
Zuzana Brabcová
The daughter of Jiří Brabec and Zina Trochová, both literary historians, she was born in Prague. After completing her schooling, she worked in the University Library in Prague, in a hospital and as a cleaner. She later became an editor, working for several publishing houses.
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Her first novel Daleko od stromu (Far from the tree) was first published in a Samizdat edition in 1984 and then in Prague in 1991. It received the Jiří Orten Award in 1997. This was followed by the novel Zlodějina (Thievery) in 1996.In 2000, she published her third novel Rok perel (Year of pearls), the first Czech novel to deal with lesbian love.
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Jaroslav Rudiš
Vyrostl v Lomnici nad Popelkou. Navštěvoval gymnázium v Turnově, po něm vystudoval Pedagogickou fakultu Technické univerzity v Liberci (obor němčina – dějepis). Dále studoval v Praze a Curychu. V letech 2001 až 2002 pobýval v Berlíně, kde obdržel novinářské stipendium na Svobodné univerzitě.
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Pracoval jako učitel, DJ, manažer punkové skupiny, hotelový portýr a naposledy jako novinář v deníku Právo. Nyní je spisovatelem na volné noze. Příležitostně vystupuje se skupinami U-Bahn a The Bombers, píše také písňové texty (mj. pro skupiny Umakart a Lety mimo). S básníkem a prozaikem Igorem Malijevským pořádá v pražském Divadle Archa každý měsíc literární kabaret EKG.
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Miloš Urban
Vystudoval moderní filologii na katedrách anglistiky a nordistiky na FF UK v Praze (1986–1992), v letech 1992–2000 pracoval jako redaktor v nakladatelství Mladá fronta, od roku 2001 v nakladatelství Argo, kde rok zastával funkci šéfredaktora.
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Vydal šest románů, několik novel a sbírku povídek; jeho knihy byly přeloženy do němčiny, španělštiny, holandštiny, maďarštiny, ruštiny a italštiny. Napsal také divadelní hry (Trochu lásky a Nože a růže) a několik povídek otištěných v různých časopisech (např. Host) a v povídkových knihách nakladatelství Listen. -
Vladislav Vančura
Vladislav Vančura byl český spisovatel, dramatik, filmový režisér, původním povoláním lékař.
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Jeho prozaické dílo je ovlivněno první světovou válkou, expresionismem, obsahuje celou řadu experimentů – hledá nové způsoby vyjádření. Pro jeho díla je typický specifický jazyk a sloh, který napodobuje větnou stavbu staré češtiny, usiluje o zvukomalbu. Jazyk Vančury je celkově bohatý. -
Jan Novák
Jan Novák (b. 1953) is a Czech-American author, screenwriter and playwright. He has published extensively in both Czech and English, also translating numerous works of Vaclav Havel into English. His English-language novels include Commies, Crooks, Gypsies, Spooks, and Poets and The Willys Dream Kit. Novák received his undergraduate education at Shimer College, a small Great Books college in Illinois, and later at the University of Chicago, where he also completed his master's degree. Novák has received numerous awards for his work, including the Carl Sandburg Award and the Magnesia Litera award. (from Shimer College Wiki)
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Leoš Kyša
Narodil se v listopadu roku 1979. V podstatě celé dětství strávil na Opavsku. Vystudoval zde Obchodní akademii v Opavě a dále pokračoval ve studiích na Slezské univerzitě v Opavě.
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Mezi roky 2003 až 2017 působil jako redaktor v mnoha redakcích různých mediálních domů (Borgis - Právo, Mediacop - Týden a Instikt, Ambit Media - Fresh marketing, Economia - Hospodářské noviny, Empresa Media - Instinkt, publicistika TV Barrandov, Mafra - Mediahub.cz)
Od roku 2017 je spisovatelem na volné noze. Působí též jako externí vyučující na Slezské univerzitě v Opavě.
Původně psal povídky a knihy pod vlastním jménem. Postupně začal většinu své tvorby vydávat pod pseudonymem František Kotleta. -
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
C.F. Ramuz was a French-speaking Swiss writer. Born in Lausanne and educated there he moved to Paris in 1903 where he first published a collection of poems, 'Le petit village.' At the outbreak of WWI in 1914 he returned to Switzerland and devoted his life to writing which included the libretto for Igor Stravinsky's 'Histoire du Soldat' in 1918. He died near his home town. His image now appears on the 200 Swiss Franc note and his foundation awards the quintannual Grand Prix C.F. Ramuz.
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Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi is professor of political theory at London School of Economics, and adjunct associate professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, with expertise in Marxism and critical theory. A native of Albania, she has degrees in philosophy and in literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a Ph.D. from the European University Institute and was a post-doctoral prize research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. Her latest book, a philosophical memoir entitled “Free: Coming of Age at the End of History,” published by Penguin Press in the UK and W. W. Norton & Company in North America, won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize. She lives and works in Lo
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Bill Browder
Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005. Since 2009, when his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was murdered in prison after uncovering a $230 million fraud committed by Russian government officials, Browder has been leading a campaign to expose Russia’s endemic corruption and human rights abuses. Before founding Hermitage, Browder was vice president at Salomon Brothers. He holds a BA in economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Stanford Business School.
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Marek Torčík
Marek Torčík (Přerov, 1993) je český spisovatel a publicista. Žije v Praze, vystudoval Anglofonní literaturu a kulturu na Karlově univerzitě. Debutoval básnickou sbírkou Rhizomy (2016). V roce 2018 a 2020 se stal jedním z desítky finalistů v česko-slovenské soutěži Básne SK/CZ". V roce 2023 vydal románovou prvotinu Rozložíš paměť. Za ni získal v roce 2024 Cenu Magnesia Litera za prózu a Cenu Jiřího Ortena pro autory a autorky do třiceti let.
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Jan Horníček
Jan Horníček (1989) se narodil v Rychnově nad Kněžnou, vystudoval matematické inženýrství a vyučoval na strojní fakultě VUT v Brně. Zájem o humanitní obory – historii, psychologii a filozofii – jej přivedl k historickým románům. Dosud publikoval pouze časopisecky, poezii v časopisech Host a Protimluv. Věnuje se práci ve skautu a pracuje jako instruktor vzdělávacích kurzů. Historická detektivka Čarostřelec je jeho knižním debutem – za román získal v roce 2020 Literární cenu Knižního klubu.
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Jan Horníček
Jan Horníček (1989) se narodil v Rychnově nad Kněžnou, vystudoval matematické inženýrství a vyučoval na strojní fakultě VUT v Brně. Zájem o humanitní obory – historii, psychologii a filozofii – jej přivedl k historickým románům. Dosud publikoval pouze časopisecky, poezii v časopisech Host a Protimluv. Věnuje se práci ve skautu a pracuje jako instruktor vzdělávacích kurzů. Historická detektivka Čarostřelec je jeho knižním debutem – za román získal v roce 2020 Literární cenu Knižního klubu.
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Jan Křesadlo
Jan Křesadlo was a pseudonym of Václav Pinkava.
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An anti-communist, he emigrated to Britain with his wife and four children following the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet-led armies of the Warsaw pact. A polymath and polyglot, he worked as a Clinical Psychologist until his early retirement in 1982, when he turned to full-time prose and poetry writing, under his main pseudonym of Jan Kresadlo. His first novel Mrchopevci (GraveLarks) was published by Zdena Salivarová and Josef Škvorecký's emigre '68 Publishers, and obtained the 1984 Egon Hostovský prize.