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  Max Brod

  Max Brod was a German-speaking Czech Jewish, later Israeli, author, composer, and journalist. Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is most famous as the friend and biographer of Franz Kafka. As Kafka's literary executor, Brod refused to follow the writer's instructions to burn his life's work, and had them published instead.
  
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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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
  
  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.
  

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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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  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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  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.
  
  Beginning in the 1960s, his work turned to focus on the politics of Czechoslovaki

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  Miroslav Holub

  Scientist and poet

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  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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  Egon Hostovský

  Egon Hostowsky (sometimes spelled "Hostovsky") was a major figure in Czech literature from the 1930s to the '60s. The youngest of eight children, he was born into a Jewish family in 1908 in the Bohemian village of Hronov. (His father was part owner of a small textile plant.) Hostowsky studied in Prague and later in Vienna, and became an editor at the Prague-based publishing company Melantrich in the early '30s. He also wrote his own books, including the novels Lost Shadow (1931) and The Arsonist (1935), for which he later received the Czechoslovak State Prize for Literature. He left Czechoslovakia in 1939, ostensibly to deliver a lecture in Brussels. Instead, he went to Paris and then New York, seeking a home far from the occupying Germans.

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  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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  Václav Hrabě

  Czech poet and writer, and the most important member of the Beat Generation in former Czechoslovakia. Hrabě was born in Příbram to Jan Hrabě and Magdalena Kalinová. He spent his childhood and youth in Lochovice and attended a high school in nearby Hořovice. He graduated in 1957 and moved to Prague, where he continued his education at the Faculty of Pedagogy, studying Czech language and History. After graduation from the university in 1961 he served two years in the army. Upon his discharge he worked in a variety of jobs - as laborer, librarian, writer for the literary magazine Tvář (Face), and finally as teacher. Hrabě's untimely death at the age of twenty-five (he died in his sleep, accidentally poisoned by carbon monoxide), robbed Czech l

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  Jan Skácel

  Jan Skácel was one of the best known Moravian poets of the 20th century.
  
  He often juxtaposed the fear stoked by the communist regime in Czechoslovakia and the highly free syntax of the Czech language. His poems are closely connected to the traditions and the nature of the region he lived in, Southern Moravia.
  
  Skácel was the editor of Host do domu, an important magazine on literature, between 1963 and 1969.

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  František Halas

  Czech poet and politician.

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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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  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.
  
  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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  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.
  
  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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  František Halas

  Czech poet and politician.

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  Egon Hostovský

  Egon Hostowsky (sometimes spelled "Hostovsky") was a major figure in Czech literature from the 1930s to the '60s. The youngest of eight children, he was born into a Jewish family in 1908 in the Bohemian village of Hronov. (His father was part owner of a small textile plant.) Hostowsky studied in Prague and later in Vienna, and became an editor at the Prague-based publishing company Melantrich in the early '30s. He also wrote his own books, including the novels Lost Shadow (1931) and The Arsonist (1935), for which he later received the Czechoslovak State Prize for Literature. He left Czechoslovakia in 1939, ostensibly to deliver a lecture in Brussels. Instead, he went to Paris and then New York, seeking a home far from the occupying Germans.

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  Alexandra Berková

  Alexandra Berková (July 2, 1949 – June 16, 2008) was a Czech writer and educator.
  
  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.
  
  
  Narodila se 2. července 1949 v Trenčíně. Jejím otcem byl dirigent symfonického orchestru Bohumil Berka a matka byla nov

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  František Langer

  Langer, as a physician, served in Czechoslovak Legions in Russia during the World War I. In 1935-38 he worked as dramatic adviser in Městské divadlo in Prague, Vinohrady and as a commander of a Prague military hospital (rank of colonel). He spent World War II in England as a member of Czechoslovakian army abroad (brigade general).

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  Miroslav Holub

  Scientist and poet

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  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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  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.
  
  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

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