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".
(Arabic: كارل تشابك) (Hebrew: קארל צ'אפק) (Japanese: 카렐 차페크) (Russian: Карел Чапек)
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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 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. -
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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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.“ -
Božena Němcová
Božena Němcová, rozená Barbora Novotná, později Barbora Panklová (4. února 1820? Vídeň – 21. ledna 1862, Praha), byla česká spisovatelka. Je považována za zakladatelku novodobé české prózy.
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Příjmení Panklová získala, až když si její matku Terezii Novotnou v létě roku 1820 vzal Johann Pankl. Roku 1821 se Panklovi přestěhovali do Ratibořic, kam se za nimi přistěhovala i její babička – Magdaléna Novotná (1825), která malou Barunku velmi ovlivnila; v dospělosti si babičku velmi zidealizovala.
V roce 1841 se vdala za Josefa Němce, který pracoval jako komisař finanční stráže (celník), jeho nadřízení s ostražitostí sledovali jeho projevy češství a služební horlivosti. V souvislosti s tím byl často služebně překládán a rodina se s ním stěhovala.
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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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Jáchym Topol
Jáchym Topol was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Topol, Czech playwright, poet, and translator of Shakespeare, and Jiřina Topolová, daughter of the famous Czech Catholic writer Karel Schulz.
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Topol's writing began with lyrics for the rock band Psí vojáci, led by his younger brother, Filip, in the late '70s and early '80s. In 1982, he cofounded the samizdat magazine Violit, and in 1985 Revolver Revue, a samizdat review that specialized in modern Czech writing.
Because of his father's dissident activities, Topol was not allowed to go to university. After graduating from gymnasium he worked as a stoker, stocker, construction worker, and coal deliveryman. Several times he was imprisoned for short periods, both for his samizdat publishing -
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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Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970) was one of the most prominent Irish language writers of the twentieth century.
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Máirtín Ó Cadhain was born in Cois Fharraige in the Connamara Gaeltacht in 1906. He is best known for his major novel, Cré na Cille (Dublin, Sáirséal agus Dill, 1949). It has been translated into English as Graveyard Clay, and into many other languages, including Danish and Norwegian. However, it was not published in English until 2015.
His short story collections include Idir Shúgradh agus Dáiríre, 1939, and An Braon Broghach, 1948, from which Eoghan Ó Tuairisc translated stories published under the title Road to Bright City (Dublin, Poolbeg Press, 1981); An tSraith ar Lár, (1967); and An tSraith Dhá Thógáil (1970).
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Stanley G. Weinbaum
Full name: Stanley Grauman Weinbaum.
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"In his short career, Stanley G. Weinbaum revolutionized science fiction. We are still exploring the themes he gave us." —Poul Anderson
"Stanley G. Weinbaum's name deserves to rank with those of Wells and Heinlein—and no more than a handful of others—as among the great shapers of modern science fiction." —Frederik Pohl -
Pavel Kosatík
JUDr. Pavel Kosatík se narodil 13. června 1962 v Boskovicích.
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Absolvoval pražskou právnickou fakultu (1984), pracoval jako redaktor v několika nakladatelstvích a v redakci Mladé fronty Dnes, Reflexu a Hospodářských novin.
Je autorem biografických a literárněhistorických knih, zabývajících se novodobou českou historií, mimo jiné Osm žen z Hradu (1993), „Člověk má dělat to, nač má sílu“ – Život Olgy Havlové (1997), Jan Masaryk – Pravdivý příběh (1998; spoluautor Michal Kolář), Ferdinand Peroutka – Pozdější život (2000), Fenomén Kohout (2001), Menší knížka o německých spisovatelích z Čech a Moravy (2001), Ferdinand Peroutka – Život v novinách (2003), Gottwaldovi muži (2004; spoluautor Karel Kaplan), Sulek maluje (2005). Nakladatelství Host v -
Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger was a decorated German soldier and author who became famous for his World War I memoir Storm of Steel. The son of a successful businessman and chemist, Jünger rebelled against an affluent upbringing and sought adventure in the Wandervogel, before running away to briefly serve in the French Foreign Legion, an illegal act. Because he escaped prosecution in Germany due to his father's efforts, Junger was able to enlist on the outbreak of war. A fearless leader who admired bravery above all else, he enthusiastically participated in actions in which his units were sometimes virtually annihilated. During an ill-fated German offensive in 1918 Junger's WW1 career ended with the last and most serious of his many woundings, and he was aw
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Vítězslav Nezval
One of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the twentieth century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechoslovakia.
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Ladislav Klíma
Ladislav Klíma (August 8, 1878 – April 19, 1928), was a Czech philosopher and novelist influenced by George Berkeley, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. His philosophy is referred to varyingly as existentialism and subjective idealism.
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Kateřina Šardická
Pracuje jako redaktorka a příležitostná scenáristka. Napsala dva young adult romány. Zmizení Sáry Lindertové (2019) zvítězilo v anketě Kniha roku v kategoriích YA roku & Objev roku. Práva na její druhý román Noci běsů (2020) se prodala do USA, Jižní Koreje a na Ukrajinu. Je autorkou čarodějné sbírky povídek Apotéka Agnes Divotvorné (2025) a spoluautorka komiksu pro děti Stella a strážci závoje (2025). Neklidný hrob (2025) je jejím prvním krůčkem k dospělé fantasy. Bydlí v Brně u svých dvou kocourů a ve volném čase obráží filmové festivaly, cestuje a ráda peče.
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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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Frank Tashlin
Frank Tashlin, born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, also known as Tish Tash or Frank Tash (February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972) was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director.
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He wrote five books: "The Bear That Wasn't" (1941), "How The Circus Learned to Smile" (1949, "The Possum That Didn't" (1950) and "The World That Isn't" (1951) and a self-help cartooning book "How to Create Cartoons" (1952). He even briefly returned to animation in 1967, adapting one of his childrens books "The Bear That Wasn't" into an MGM animated short, directed by his former colleague Chuck Jones. -
Irena Dousková
Irena Dousková se narodila roku 1964 v Příbrami v herecké rodině. Od roku 1976 žije v Praze, kde absolvovala gymnaziální studia (gymnázium Nad štolou) a posléze Právnickou fakultu Univerzity Karlovy. Právnické profesi se ale nikdy nevěnovala. Vystřídala různá zaměstnání, většinou nějakým způsobem související s novinařinou. Posledních několik let je na volné noze a věnuje se psaní.
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Jaroslava Blažková
Narodila sa 15. 11. 1933 vo Valašskom Meziříčí v Českej republike. Dnes žije v Kanade. Roky detstva prežívala v Prahe, Přelouči a v ďalších mestách, v ktorých pracoval jej otec. Zmaturovala na gymnáziu v Bratislave r. 1952. Ponajprv nastúpila do Československého rozhlasu, v rokoch 1954-59 pracovala v denníku Smena ako redaktorka kultúrnej rubriky. V 60. rokoch až po odchod do emigrácie r. 1968 sa venovala literárnej a publicistickej tvorbe. V Kanade spolupracovala s vydavateľstvom 68 Publishers'Corp. V Toronte ako lektorka slovenských rukopisov až do roku 1988, keď sa s manželom D. Pokorným presťahovali do univerzitného mestečka Guelph v provincii Ontario.Do literatúry vstúpila v skupine mladých autorov sústredených okolo časopisu Mladá tvo
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Steve White
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Steve White is a British comic book writer, paleoartist, and occasional colourist who has mainly worked with 2000 AD.
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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
(Russian: Алексей Николаевич Толстой)
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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels.
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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. -
Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS FRSL (born October 19, 1929) is a developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster.
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He was educated at the University of Witwatersrand, Imperial College London, and at King's College London. He is presently Emeritus Professor of Biology as applied to Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and developmental biology at University College London.
He is well known in his field for elaborating and championing the ideas of positional information and positional value: molecular signals and internal cellular responses to them that enable cells to do the right thing in the right place during embryonic development. The essence of these concepts is that there is a dedicated set of molecules for spatial coordination of cells th -
Michal Viewegh
Michal Viewegh is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, and variously successful irony and attempts at deeper meaningfulness; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans.
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His books, which, since the late 1990s, he publishes every spring, usually sell about 50,000 copies each, bringing him an upper-high-class income unparalleled among Czech writers (by his own boastful admissions, his royalties from a successful book are equal to roughly 8 years of an average Czech salary). His 2004 income was Kč 4 million. Viewegh likes to point out this success with readers, as well as the fact that his books have been translated to severa -
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.
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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.
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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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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 Havlíček Borovský
Karel Havlíček Borovský was a Czech writer, poet, critic, politician, journalist, and publisher.
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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.“ -
Rudolf Sloboda
Rudolf Sloboda was a Slovak writer, poet, playwright and scriptwriter.
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He was one of the most original and important Slovak writers in the second half of the 20th century. Most of Sloboda's writings are based on his real life and experiences. His works are characteristic for their brilliant narrative style, closely following their themes and plot, as well as for the author's profound thoughts and depth of feeling. Sloboda's books are often built on the motive of love and related motives such as jealousy, eroticism, sex, but also loneliness, faith in God and search for the meaning of life. -
Dušan Mitana
Do literárneho života sa Dušan Mitana zapojil otvoreným listom básnickej skupine Osamelí bežci, publikovaným v Mladej tvorbe. Debutoval poviedkou Oáza s jabloňami v Mladej tvorbe v roku 1965 a od roku 1967 bol externým redaktorom tohto časopisu. Od roku 1973 pracoval ako redaktor časopisu Romboid, zo „znormalizovanej“ redakcie však v roku 1975 odišiel a odvtedy žije v Bratislave ako spisovateľ „na voľnej nohe“.
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Dušan Mitana patrí do súčasnej slovenskej prózy. Ako jeden z prvých písal experimentátorskú postmodernistickú prózu v slovenskej literatúre.
Knižným debutom Psie dni (1970) sa zaradil do silnej generácie spisovateľov, ktorí v tomto desaťročí razantne vstúpili do slovenskej literatúry. Príbehy vychádzajúce z bežných životných situácií -
Margita Figuli
Margita Figuli, za slobodna Margita Figuliová, po sobáši Margita Šustrová, pseudonymy Morena, Oľga Morena bola slovenská spisovateľka, prekladateľka a autorka literatúry pre deti a mládež.
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Narodila sa v roľníckej rodine. Gymnaziálne štúdiá začala v Dolnom Kubíne, no maturovala na Obchodnej akadémii v Banskej Bystrici (1924 – 1928). Chcela pokračovať v štúdiu, no jej pokus o štúdium maliarstva v Prahe jej nevyšiel. Pracovala ako anglická korešpondentka v Tatra banke v Bratislave (do roku 1941), neskôr sa venovala len literárnej činnosti. Popri zamestnaní študovala na konzervatóriu hru na klavíri.
Margita Figuli je výraznou predstaviteľkou slovenského naturizmu v novelistickej a románovej tvorbe. Publikovať začala už v roku 1930 v časopise Slov -
Július Barč-Ivan
Július Ernest Barč-Ivan sa narodil 1. mája 1909 v Krompachoch správcovi školy a detskej opatrovateľke. Po návšteve ľudovej školy a meštianke v rodisku študoval na gymnáziu v Spišskej Novej Vsi, Kežmarku, Košiciach a Prešove. Po maturite na Šafárikovom štátnom reálnom gymnáziu v Prešove sa zapísal na Právnickú fakultu Karlovej univerzity v Prahe, no štúdium zanechal pre podozrenie na tuberkulózu. Do roku 1930 pracoval ako úradník na daňovom úrade v Košiciach.
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V roku 1930 začína publikovať svoje prvé prózy a úvahy časopisecky a začína štúdium na Vysokej evanjelickej teologickej školy v Bratislave. Jeho knižný debut, súbor próz Pohádka, ktorý vyšiel v roku 1933, obsahoval práce Pohádka, Film a Penzia Jozefa Grubčíka. V roku 1934 bola inscenova -
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 -
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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 -
Isaac Babel
Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (Russian: Исаак Эммануилович Бабель; 1894 - 1940) was a Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry, Story of my Dovecote and Tales of Odessa, all of which are considered masterpieces of Russian literature. Babel has also been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry."
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Loyal to, but not uncritical of, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Isaak Babel fell victim to Joseph Stalin's Great Purge due to his longterm affair with the wife of NKVD chief Nikolai Yezhov. Babel was arrested by the NKVD at Peredelkino on the night of May 15, 1939. After "confessing", under torture, to being a Trotskyist terrorist and for -
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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Jan Skácel
Jan Skácel was one of the best known Moravian poets of the 20th century.
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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.
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Josef Čapek
Josef Čapek was a Czech artist, writer and poet and brother to author Karel Čapek. Josef Čapek was a student of Cubism, which combined with his own playful style, exhibited a primitive note in his paintings. Josef Čapek collaborated with his brother on numerous occasions, which produced many plays and short stories. Josef Čapek is also famous for penning the Czech children’s classic Doggie and Pussycat. Although his brother Karel is usually noted as the man who coined the word Robot, it was actually Josef; Karel introduced the word Robot into literature. Due to his and his brother’s negative attitude towards Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Regime, Josef was arrested shortly after the German invasion in 1939, and was sent to the Bergen-Belsen Conc
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Jára Cimrman
Jara Cimrman was a Vienna-born Czech polymath. He was a pedagogue, dramatist, philosopher, gynecologist-amateur, skier, inventor, a close friend of Einstein and a private enemy of Edison. His strongest character trait was patriotism, and he liked to come to Bohemia, which he considered his true home. Here his life work culminated.
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In 2005, Jara Cimrman won the title of The Gratest Czech as a result of a poll organised by the Czech Television.
Early life
Jara Cimrman was born in the years 1850-1870 in Vienna. Because Franz Huschkov, the registrar of the 4th Vienna Parish, was making most of his entries in a state of inebriation, it cannot be said with any degree of certainty whether Jára Cimrman was born to Marlén and Leopold Cimrman on a free -
Jiří Weil
Jiří Weil IPA: [jɪr̝iː vaɪl] was a Czech writer. He was Jewish. His noted works include the two novels Life with a Star, and Mendelssohn Is on the Roof, as well as many short stories, and other novels.
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Michael Löwy
French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is presently the emerited research director in social sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research) and lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS; Paris, France). Author of books on Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Liberation Theology, György Lukács, Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka, he received the Silver Medal of the CNRS in 1994.
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C.K. Prahalad
was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in the University of Michigan, USA.
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Marc Pastor
Marc Pastor (Barcelona, 1977) és criminòleg i un explorador culturalment dispers. Va combatre els nazis a Montecristo i va traçar el perfil criminal de la Vampira de Barcelona a La mala dona (Ara Mini, 2017), distingida amb el premi de novel·la negra Crims de Tinta. Amb L’any de la plaga va alertar sobre una imminent invasió d’ultracossos i amb Bioko (Amsterdam, 2013) ens va descobrir una manera de viatjar en el temps. Amb Farishta (Amsterdam, 2017), segueix teixint una teranyina d'històries on predomina la ciència ficció, l'aventura i les referències pop. Ha publicat relats en diverses antologies, i, tot i que es poden llegir per separat, les seves ficcions es complementen i conformen un univers propi i únic. La seva obra ha estat traduïda
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Norman Lebrecht
Norman Lebrecht (born 11 July 1948 in London) is a British commentator on music and cultural affairs and a novelist. He was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph from 1994 until 2002 and assistant editor of the Evening Standard from 2002 until 2009. On BBC Radio 3, he has presented lebrecht.live from 2000 and The Lebrecht Interview from 2006.
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He has written twelve books about music, which have been translated into 17 languages. Coming up in 2010 is Why Mahler?, a new interpretation of the most influential composer of modern times. See Books for more details. Also coming back in print is Mahler Remembered (Faber, 1987).
Norman Lebrecht's first novel The Song of Names won a Whitbread Award in 2003. His second, The Game of Opposites, was published -
Daniel F. Galouye
Daniel Francis Galouye (11 February 1920 – 7 September 1976) was an American science fiction writer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he contributed novelettes and short stories to various digest-size science fiction magazines, sometimes writing under the pseudonym Louis G. Daniels.
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After Galouye (pronounced Gah-lou-ey) graduated from Louisiana State University (B.A.), he worked as a reporter for several newspapers. During World War II, he served in the US Navy as an instructor and test pilot, receiving injuries that led to later health problems. On December 26, 1945, he married Carmel Barbara Jordan. From the 1940s until his retirement in 1967, he was on the staff of The States Item. He lived in New Orleans but also had a summer home across Lake -
Richard Weiner
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Richard Weiner was a Czech journalist and writer. He is generally considered to be one of the most important Czech writers of the twentieth century, since he influenced many of his own and later generations of writers. Yet he is little known outside the Czech Republic. Because of his enigmatic writings he has often been likened to Franz Kafka, although mutual influences can be ruled out with near certainty. He has been called "the poet of anxiety", others spoke of him as "the Odd-man out" of Czech literature. His contemporary Karel Čapek named him "the man of pain." -- Wikipedia