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Tomáš Halík

Tomáš Halík is a Czech public intellectual, Roman Catholic priest, and scholar.

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MUDr. Tomáš Šebek je český chirurg, účastník misí Lékařů bez hranic.

Vystudoval všeobecné lékařství na 1. lékařské fakultě Univerzity Karlovy. Poté začal pracovat jako chirurg v Nemocnici Hořovice, v irském Dublinu a v současnosti v Nemocnici Na Františku v Praze.
Na první misi s Lékaři bez hranic odjel v roce 2010 na zemětřesením zdevastované Haiti. Později se do této země vrátil. Dvakrát pracoval v traumacentru Lékařů bez hranic v afghánském Kundúzu. Lékařskou péči poskytoval také lidem v Agoku na pomezí Súdánu a Jižního Súdánu. Celkem absolvoval s organizací šest misí, naposledy působil ve válkou zmítaném Jemenu. Svou zkušenost z misí popsal v emailech a článcích, které později vyšly i knižně.

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Paulo Coelho

The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist. In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage. In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time. Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo entitle Maktub

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Jack London

John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.

London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.

His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and Wh

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Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bestseller, defining a new genre of veterans’ literature and inspiring multiple film adaptations. Its strong anti-war themes led to condemnation by the Nazi regime, which banned and burned his works.
Born Erich Paul Remark in 1898, he adopted the surname Remarque to honor his French ancestry. He served on the Western Front during World War I, where he was wounded, and later pursued various jobs, including teaching, editing, and technical writing. After the massive success of All Quiet on the Western Front, he wrote several other novels addressing w

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Bohumil Hrabal

Born in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, he lived briefly in Polná, but was raised in the Nymburk brewery as the manager's stepson.

Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on.

He worked as a manual laborer alongside Vladimír Boudník in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, an experience which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at the time.

His best known novels were Closely Watched Trains (1965) and I Served the King of England. In 1965 he bought a cottage in Kersko, which he used to visit till the end of his life, and where he kept cats ("kočenky").

He was a great storyteller; his popular pub was At the Golden Tiger (U zlatého tygra) on Husova Street in Prague, where he met

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Óscar Martínez

Óscar Martínez writes for ElFaro.net, the first online newspaper in Latin America. The original edition of his book Los migrantes que no importan was published in 2010 by Icaria and El Faro, with a second edition by Mexico’s sur+ Ediciones in 2012. Martínez is currently writing chronicles and articles for El Faro’s project, Sala Negra, investigating gang violence in Latin America. In 2008, Martínez won the Fernando Benítez National Journalism Prize in Mexico, and in 2009, he was awarded the Human Rights Prize at the José Simeón Cañas Central American University in El Salvador.

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Arnošt Lustig

Arnošt Lustig (born 21 December 1926 in Prague) is a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust.

As a Jewish boy in Czechoslovakia during World War II, he was sent in 1942 to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, from where he was later transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, followed by time in the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 1945, he escaped from a train carrying him to the Dachau concentration camp when the engine was mistakenly destroyed by an American fighter-bomber. He returned to Prague in time to take part in the May 1945 anti-Nazi uprising.

After the war, he studied journalism at Charles University in Prague and then worked for a number o

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Åsne Seierstad

Åsne Seierstad is a Norwegian freelance journalist and writer, best known for her accounts of everyday life in war zones – most notably Kabul after 2001, Baghdad in 2002 and the ruined Grozny in 2006.
She has received numerous awards for her journalism and has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
She is fluent in five languages and lives in Norway.

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Richard P. Feynman

Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman was a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, together with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Feynman developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime and after his death, Feynman became one of the most publicly

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Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling (1948 – 2017) was a Swedish physician, academic, statistician, and public speaker.

He was the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute and was the co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software. He held presentations around the world, including several TED Talks in which he promoted the use of data to explore development issues.

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Tomáš Halík

Tomáš Halík is a Czech public intellectual, Roman Catholic priest, and scholar.

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Kateřina Tučková

Kateřina Tučková (nar. 1980) vystudovala dějiny umění a bohemistiku na FF MU v Brně, v současné době pracuje jako kurátorka. Debutovala novelou Montespaniáda (2006), v roce 2009 vydala román Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch, za který obdržela cenu Magnesia Litera 2010 – Knižní klub Cena čtenářů a byla nominována na Cenu Josefa Škvoreckého, Magnesii Literu za prózu a Cenu Jiřího Ortena. Je autorkou několika odborných publikací z oblasti českého výtvarného umění, na pomezí historie a krásné literatury se pohybuje beletrizovaný životopis Můj otec Kamil Lhoták (2008).

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Erik Tabery

Erik Tabery, Jr. is a Czech journalist and Editor-in-Chief of the weekly newspaper Respekt.

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Petra Dvořáková

Petra Dvořáková je spisovatelka a scenáristka. Vystudovala střední zdravotnickou školu a absolvovala obor filozofie na FF MU. Do povědomí veřejnosti vstoupila svým debutem, knihou rozhovorů o víře Proměněné sny, za kterou v roce 2007 získala cenu Magnesia Litera v kategorii publicistika. O dva roky později jí vyšla druhá kniha Já jsem hlad — příběh o zápasu s mentální anorexií, hledání, cestě a návratu k ženské duši. V roce 2013 vydala svou první knihu určenou dětem Julie mezi slovy, za kterou získala ocenění Zlatá stuha v kategorii beletrie pro mládež a Cenu učitelů za přínos k rozvoji dětského čtenářství; připravuje se její slovinské vydání. Novinka Flouk a Líla z roku 2015 je jejím dalším titulem pro dětské čtenáře. Pro Český rozhlas při

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Alena Mornštajnová

Alena Mornštajnová vystudovala angličtinu a češtinu na Filozofické fakultě Ostravské univerzity. V současné době pracuje jako lektorka anglického jazyka a překladatelka. Žije ve Valašském Meziříčí. V roce 2013 vyšel její debutový román Slepá mapa, který byl nominován na Cenu Česká kniha 2014.

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Ladislav Zibura

Ladislav Zibura (* 15. června 1992 České Budějovice) je český cestovatel, spisovatel, novinář a copywriter.

Na Univerzitě Karlově absolvoval obor mediální studia, poté začal studoval žurnalistiku a hospodářskou politiku na Masarykově univerzitě. Působil v Českém rozhlase. Pracuje jako copywriter.

Věnuje se pěším poutím, v roce 2011 šel pouť do Santiaga de Compostela, o rok později z Českých Budějovic do Říma, Santiaga de Compostela a v roce 2014 z bulharsko-tureckých hranic do Jeruzaléma. Na kole absolvoval cestu k Severnímu moři a zpět. V dubnu 2015 začal pořádat projekce o svých zážitcích z cest. V září 2015 se účastnil soutěžního pořadu AZ-kvíz, kde svou recesistickou strategií upoutal pozornost diváků i médií. Po ukončení studií v roce 20

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Nina Špitálníková

Nina Špitálníková je česká koreanistka, odbornice na Korejskou lidově demokratickou republiku, aktivistka za ženská práva a také spisovatelka. Své knihy zatím směřuje právě k této ostře sledované části Asie – jedná se o tituly Propaganda v KLDR (2014) a Na studiích v KLDR s chytlavým podtitulem Mezi dvěma Kimy (2017).

Angažuje se v aktivitách zaměřených na problematiku genderové nerovnosti a matek samoživitelek. V roce 2017 spoluzaložila projekt Woman on a mission, který má upozornit na znevýhodněné postavení žen v hudebním průmyslu. Pracuje v pražském multikulturním centru Crossclub jako produkční a dramaturg.(zdroj životopisu: KnihyDobrovský.cz)

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Honza Vojtko

*1975
Mgr., psycholog a terapeut, zaměřený na vzdělávání dospělých, párovou a individuální terapii, kognitivně-behaviorální terapii, schéma terapii, též autor pohádek.

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Tomáš Šebek

MUDr. Tomáš Šebek je český chirurg, účastník misí Lékařů bez hranic.

Vystudoval všeobecné lékařství na 1. lékařské fakultě Univerzity Karlovy. Poté začal pracovat jako chirurg v Nemocnici Hořovice, v irském Dublinu a v současnosti v Nemocnici Na Františku v Praze.
Na první misi s Lékaři bez hranic odjel v roce 2010 na zemětřesením zdevastované Haiti. Později se do této země vrátil. Dvakrát pracoval v traumacentru Lékařů bez hranic v afghánském Kundúzu. Lékařskou péči poskytoval také lidem v Agoku na pomezí Súdánu a Jižního Súdánu. Celkem absolvoval s organizací šest misí, naposledy působil ve válkou zmítaném Jemenu. Svou zkušenost z misí popsal v emailech a článcích, které později vyšly i knižně.

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Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart is a NY Times bestselling author. His work has been translated into over 40 languages. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, is the winner of the 2020 Booker Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. His second novel, Young Mungo, was a #1 Sunday Times Bestseller. His short stories have been published by The New Yorker.

Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, after receiving his MA from the Royal College of Art in London, he has lived and worked in New York City.

Follow him on instagram at Douglas_Stuart or Twitter at Doug_D_Stuart

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Tomáš Etzler

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