Jaroslav Seifert
Awarded 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man."
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Romain Rolland
Varied works of French writer Romain Rolland include Jean Christophe (1904-1912), a series of satirical novels; he won the Nobel Prize of 1915 for literature.
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The committee awarded him "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings."
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Václav Havel
Václav Havel was a Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003). He wrote over twenty plays and numerous non-fiction works, translated internationally. He received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the freedom medal of the Four Freedoms Award, and the Ambassador of Conscience Award. He was also voted 4th in Prospect Magazine's 2005 global poll of the world's top 100 intellectuals. He was a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.
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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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.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. -
Molière
Sophisticated comedies of French playwright Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, include Tartuffe (1664), The Misanthrope (1666), and The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670).
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French literary figures, including Molière and Jean de la Fontaine, gathered at Auteuil, a favorite place.
People know and consider Molière, stage of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also an actor of the greatest masters in western literature. People best know l'Ecole des femmes (The School for Wives), l'Avare ou l'École du mensonge (The Miser), and le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) among dramas of Molière.
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Josef Škvorecký
Josef Škvorecký, CM was a Czech writer and publisher who spent much of his life in Canada. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country. By turns humorous, wise, eloquent and humanistic, Škvorecký's fiction deals with several themes: the horrors of totalitarianism and repression, the expatriate experience, and the miracle of jazz.
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Romain Rolland
Varied works of French writer Romain Rolland include Jean Christophe (1904-1912), a series of satirical novels; he won the Nobel Prize of 1915 for literature.
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The committee awarded him "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings."
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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.
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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").
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Ota Pavel
A Czech writer, journalist and sport reporter. He is primarily an author of autobiographical and biographical novels.
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Nikolai Gogol
People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).
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Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.
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Karel Hynek Mácha
Karel Hynek Mácha was a Czech romantic poet. His lyrical epic poem Máj (May), published in 1836 shortly before his death, was judged by his contemporaries as confusing, too individualistic, and not in harmony with the national ideas. Máj was rejected by publishers, and was published by a vanity press at Mácha's own expense, not long before his early death.
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Mácha's genius was discovered and glorified much later by the poets and novelists of the 1850s generation (for example Jan Neruda, Vítězslav Hálek, Karolina Světlá) and Máj is now regarded as the classic work of Czech Romanticism, and is considered one of the best Czech poems ever written.
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Ladislav Fuks
Ladislav Fuks byl český prozaik, autor především psychologické prózy s tématem úzkosti člověka ohrožovaného nesvobodou a násilím. Jako symbol tohoto tématu si pak zvolil druhou světovou válku a holokaust. Většina jeho díla je autobiografická, často skrytě - téměř všemi jeho knihami prochází figura senzitivního, slabého hocha, žijícího ve svém vnitřním světě a toužícího po citovém přátelství. Právě tato stále se vracející postava trpícího a mučeného chlapce má silnou míru autobiografičnosti. Fuksovo dílo je někdy také autobiografickou travestií – např. Vévodkyně a kuchařka. Fuks je ve svém díle též mistrem masky, jinotajů a náznaků, k čemuž byl jako homosexuál přirozeně donucen dobou, v níž žil a tvořil. Ve svých knihách se také často dopouš
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Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek is one of the the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He wrote with intelligence and humour on a wide variety of subjects. His works are known for their interesting and precise descriptions of reality, and Čapek is renowned for his excellent work with the Czech language. His play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) first popularized the word "robot".
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Karel Jaromír Erben
Karel Jaromír Erben was a Czech historian, poet and writer of the mid-19th century, best known for his collection "Kytice", which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes.
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He was born on November 7, 1811 in Miletín u Jičína. He went to college in Hradec Králové. Then, in 1831, he went to Prague where he studied philosophy and later law. He started working in the National Museum (Národní muzeum) with František Palacký in 1843. He became editor of a Prague's newspaper in 1848. Two years later, in 1850, he became archives' secretary of the National Museum. He died on November 21, 1870 of tuberculosis. -
Zdeněk Jirotka
Zdeněk Jirotka was born in Ostrava on January 7, 1911 and died in Prague on April 12, 2003.
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After not finishing his studies at secondary school he served out as a bricklayer, later (1933) he graduated from building technical school in Hradec Králové.
After finishing the school he entered the Czechoslovak Army, where he served till 1940 as an infantry officer. Then he worked at the Ministry of public works and till the end of the WWII he made his living by literature. He worked as an editor of Lidové noviny (newspaper) from 1940 to 1945, then he became an editor of Svobodné noviny (newspaper), after 1951 he worked for two years for the humorous journal Dikobraz. Between 1953 and 1962 he worked in the Czechoslovak broadcast, from where he came -
Viktor Dyk
Viktor Dyk was a nationalist Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer. He was sent to jail during the First World War for opposing the Austro-Hungarian empire. He was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of Czech writers. Dyk co-founded a political party and entered politics. He died at age 53, leaving his many poems, plays and writings. (source: Wikipedia.org)
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Karel Havlíček Borovský
Karel Havlíček Borovský was a Czech writer, poet, critic, politician, journalist, and publisher.
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František Gellner
František Gellner was a Czech poet, short story writer, artist and anarchist. His first poems are full of irony in Heinrich Heine's style. In 1901 he published his first collection called Po nás ať přijde potopa! (After Us Let the Floods Come!) in which he used especially sexual motifs without any embellishments. The next collection Radosti života (Joys of Life) shifted the point of view from subject to object and throws the disbelief more on society. The rhythm of the poems is close to vaudeville verses or chansons. Nové verše (New Verses, published posthumously in 1919) are not so pathetic as if seen from a distance with a lot of nonchalance. He also wrote satirical poems in Karel Havlíček Borovský's style which were published mostly in p
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Jan Otčenášek
Narodil se 19. 11. 1924 v Praze. Vystudoval obchodní akademii (maturoval v r. 1943). Od roku 1944 pracoval v továrně Avia Letňany. Zde se také zapojil do odboje. Vysokoškolského studia estetiky zanechal. Od roku 1952 pracoval v aparátu Svazu československých spisovatelů. Od roku 1960 byl spisovatelem z povolání. Po roce 1973 dramaturgem Filmového studia Barrandov.
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Zemřel 24. 2. 1979 v Praze.
„Ale co zmůžeš proti světu,když už jej staří tak beznadějějně zpackali? Vletěls do něho bez vlastní viny. Vybral by sis onačejší,ale nikdo se neptal.“ -
Jiří Kolář
Jiří Kolář was a Czech poet, writer, painter, translator from French, English and German, graphic designer. Member of poetry groups Skupina 42, Umělecké besedy and Křižovatka. His work was divided between literary and visual art.
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Karel Poláček
Karel Poláček byl český spisovatel, humorista, novinář a filmový scenárista. Dílo K. Poláčka představuje jednu z nejvýznamnějších hodnot české meziválečné prózy. Ve svých humoristických románech se zaměřil na zobrazení tragikomedie maloměstského života.
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Poláčkovy prózy lze rozdělit na humoristické a společensko-kritické. Snad nejúspěšnějším dílem je posmrtně vydaný příběh Petra Bajzy Bylo nás pět. -
Jan Otčenášek
Narodil se 19. 11. 1924 v Praze. Vystudoval obchodní akademii (maturoval v r. 1943). Od roku 1944 pracoval v továrně Avia Letňany. Zde se také zapojil do odboje. Vysokoškolského studia estetiky zanechal. Od roku 1952 pracoval v aparátu Svazu československých spisovatelů. Od roku 1960 byl spisovatelem z povolání. Po roce 1973 dramaturgem Filmového studia Barrandov.
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Zemřel 24. 2. 1979 v Praze.
„Ale co zmůžeš proti světu,když už jej staří tak beznadějějně zpackali? Vletěls do něho bez vlastní viny. Vybral by sis onačejší,ale nikdo se neptal.“ -
Josef Kainar
Czech poet, translator, lyricist, dramatist, illustrator, musician and journalist. Member of poetry groups Skupina 42 and Ohnice.
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Jan Zahradníček
Jan Alois Zahradníček (17. ledna 1905, Mastník – 7. října 1960, Vlčatín) byl český básník, novinář, překladatel a spisovatel, jeden z nejvýznamnějších českých básníků 20. století a vrcholný představitel české katolické poezie. Ve čtyřicátých letech redigoval katolickou revue Akord.
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Jeho otevřeně katolická a ostře protikomunistická tvorba jej přiváděla do ostrého konfliktu s levicovými autory, již před druhou světovou válkou se někteří z nich, jako například Jan Drda, vyjádřili, že Zahradníček musí po jejich vítězství za mříže. Po únorovém převratu byl nejprve vyloučen z Československého svazu spisovatelů a posléze odsouzen ve vykonstruovaném procesu k 13 letům vězení. Dlouhodobé a kruté věznění vedlo ke zhoršení jeho už tak trvale špatného z -
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Alexandra Berková
Alexandra Berková (July 2, 1949 – June 16, 2008) was a Czech writer and educator.
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The daughter of an orchestra conductor and a journalist, she was born in Trenčín and studied Czech literature and applied arts at Charles University in Prague. From 1973 to 1981, she worked as an editor for a publishing house and, after 1905, as a high school teacher in creative arts. From 1983 to 1991, Berková wrote for Czechoslovak Television. After the 1989 Revolution, she helped organize the Writers' Council and helped found the feminist group New Humanity.
She married the painter Vladimír Novák and they had two children but later separated.
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Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic was a Czech poet, writer and literary critic. He is a prominent representative of decadence in Czech literature. As a writer and reviewer he also used naturalistic and impressionistic styles.
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Jiří Kolář
Jiří Kolář was a Czech poet, writer, painter, translator from French, English and German, graphic designer. Member of poetry groups Skupina 42, Umělecké besedy and Křižovatka. His work was divided between literary and visual art.
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Adam Pýcha
He was born in the city of cars. Unfortunately, it was not the famous Detroit, but the much smaller, but still picturesque Mladá Boleslav. He studied political science at Palacký University in Olomouc. He has been writing since elementary school. He began by creating a magazine for his classmates, brazenly using the Pokemon license, even though he had no permission to do so. He wrote many poems and short stories that won literary competitions.
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His love of literature led him to create sales copy and proofread it. He co-founded a company that gradually began to specialize in web design, graphics and other marketing activities. At the age of twenty-six, he started to take care of marketing and e-commerce for bookshop KNIHY DOBROVSKY, where he h -
Ivan Wernisch
Narodil se v hlavním městě Protektorátu Čechy a Morava. V matrice Pražského německého stavovského úřadu je zapsán jako Johann Wernisch. Dětství prožil na mnoha místech, byl městským i venkovským hochem. Čtyři roky studoval na Vyšší průmyslové škole keramické v Karlových Varech, pak vystřídal více než dvacet všemožných zaměstnání, nyní nedělá téměř nic. Až vyroste, bude námořníkem.
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Julius Fučík
Czechoslovak journalist, critc, writer, an active member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and part of the forefront of the anti-Nazi resistance. He was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the Nazis.
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Fučík was detained in Pankrác Prison in Prague, where he was also interrogated and tortured. In this time arose Fučík's Notes from the Gallows (Czech: Reportáž psaná na oprátce, literally Reports Written Under the Noose), which was written on pieces of cigarette paper and smuggled out by sympathetic prison wardens named Kolínský and Hora. The book describes events in the prison since Fučík's arrest and is filled with hope for a better, Communist future. The book was published in a more "acceptable" version, from which the less pleasant pas -
Ivan Blatný
Blatny was a central figure in the Czechoslovak avant-garde until defecting to Britain in 1948, infuriating Communist authorities. His mental health began to deteriorate and he was eventually diagnosed as paranoid-schizophrenic, to spend most of the remainder of his life in British psychiatric hospitals. Though a curious nurse helped re-establish his literary status late in life, he died still in exile, unable to return to his homeland.
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Vladimír Holan
s one of the earlier poets of the country. Born in the year 1905, Vladimír Holan was famous for the obscure language and the pessimistic ideas that his poems revealed. Born in Prague, Vladimír Holan perused a career of a clerk. His first poetic work was published in the year 1932 and was called Vanutí meaning Breezing.
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A member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Vladimír Holans poetry often reflected his strong political views. His more political poems included, Zárí 1938 (September 1938),Sen (The Dream), Odpoved Francii (The Reply to France), and Zpev tríkrálový (Twelfth Night Song). In the year 1949 he left the Communist party and by the 1950s and 60s he started writing longer poems which were a mixture of abstract lyrics and realit