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.
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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French literary figures, including Molière and Jean de la Fontaine, gathered at Auteuil, a favorite place.
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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.
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In 2017 verscheen haar debuutroman Het tegenovergestelde van een mens bij Atlas Contact. De verzamelbundel Man met hoed bevat bundels 1 & 2, aslook nieuw werk en een selectie vertalingen.
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František Kotleta
Jedná se o pseudonym Leoše Kyši
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Rodák z Bruntálu, spisovatel, trestanec, podnikatel, jesenický Mauglí a řezník. Pochází z umělecké rodiny, jeho matka byla tanečnice, gymnastka a špionka, již pro neohrožené občanské a politické postoje perzekuovali natolik, že byla nucena před StB uprchnout do zahraničí. O Kotletově otci se nic neví. Podle některých indicií je jím Michail Gorbačov, kterého Kotletova matka svedla během jeho tajné návštěvy Bruntálu.
Dva roky strávil ve věznici Heřmanice, za což ale mohlo pouhé nedorozumění. Vzhledem k datu jeho narození si policie spletla nevinnou párty s ilegální oslavou narozenin Adolfa Hitlera. Při pokusu o rozehnání večírku zbil Kotleta sedm policistů do bezvědomí a jejich veliteli usekl několik prstů na -
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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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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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Nicolas Vanier
Nicolas Vanier is a French adventurer, writer and filmmaker.
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His latest feature film, Loup ("Wolf") was released at the end of 2009 and was presented at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Loup is about the life of the Evens tribe in North Eastern arctic Siberia, in the Verkhoïansk mountain range, who live by raising large herds of caribou, which involves protecting them from attacks by wolves. -
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W. Brad Johnson
W. Brad Johnson is Professor of psychology in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States Naval Academy, and a Faculty Associate in the Graduate School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. A clinical psychologist and former commissioned officer in the Navy’s Medical Service Corps, Dr. Johnson served at Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Medical Clinic at Pearl Harbor where he was the division head for psychology. He is a recipient of the Johns Hopkins University Teaching Excellence Award, and has received distinguished mentor awards from the National Institutes of Health and the American Psychological Association. Dr. Johnson is the author of numerous publications including 14 books, in the areas of gender in the wor
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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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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. -
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.“ -
Dobroslav Chrobák
Slovenský prozaik, esejista, kultúrny publicista a literárny kritik.
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Narodil sa ako druhé zo štyroch detí v rodine krajčíra a osvetového pracovníka. Študoval na gymnáziu v Rožňave a Liptovskom Mikuláši, neskôr na Vyššej priemyselnej škole v Bratislave. Štúdium ukončil v roku 1934 na Českom vysokom učení technickom v Prahe. Po návrate do Bratislavy pôsobil ako vysokoškolský pedagóg. Neskôr pracoval ako redaktor Rádiožurnálu v Československom rozhlase v Bratislave, posledných päť rokov ako oblastný riaditeľ pre Slovensko. Zomrel v Bratislave na rakovinový nádor, pochovaný je v Hybiach.
Už ako študent písal poviedky, bol kronikárom obce, zberateľom prísloví a porekadiel. Ako 17-ročný debutoval v Studentskom časopise svojou prvou poviedkou. Ďalši -
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 -
Martin Kukučín
Prozaik, dramatik, publicista, lekár, významný predstaviteľ slovenského literárneho realizmu
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Jozef Gregor Tajovský
Spisovateľ, prozaik, dramatik, vedúca osobnosť druhej vlny slovenského literárneho realizmu
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Pochádzal z rodiny remeselníka a hutníckeho dozorcu. Vyrastal však u starého otca Štefana Grešku, hutníckeho robotníka a domkára. Rodisko sa podpísalo pod jeho národnú uvedomelosť, čo mu pomohlo pri zblížení sa s banskobystrickými národovcami. Národné presvedčenie bolo neskôr dôvodom na časté striedanie učiteľských miest, keďže bolo prameňom nezhôd s vrchnosťou (cirkevnou i štátnou). Počas štúdií v Prahe sa stal členom spolku Detvan a zblížil sa s hlasistami a českými realistami. Prebúdzal národné povedomie dedinského a robotníckeho ľudu, sústredil sa najmä na odhaľovanie jeho zlého sociálneho postavenia, študoval jeho život (piesne, obyčaje, porekadl -
Božena Slančíková Timrava
Slovenská prozaička a dramatička.
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Narodila sa v rodine evanjelického farára Pavla Slančíka, ktorý bol spoluzakladateľom Matice slovenskej. Mala desať súrodencov (jej brat Bohuslav, evanjelický farár, bol jej dvojčaťom), z ktorých 6 sa dožilo dospelého veku, a viacerí z nich boli neskôr literárne činní. Vzdelanie získala najprv v rodisku, potom ju učil otec, v Banskej Bystrici ukončila 4. triedu meštianskej školy. Nevydala sa, vďaka čomu mala celý život existenčné problémy. Hoci sa neustále snažila oslobodiť od rodiny, jej pokusy nájsť si prácu neboli veľmi úspešné. Chvíľu bola spoločníčkou vdovy v Dolnom Kubíne, neskôr sa stala v Martine opatrovateľkou zbierok Slovenského národného múzea, no vydržala tam tiež len krátko. V roku 1909 sa presť -
Ján Palárik
Slovenský dramatik a publicista.
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Pochádzal z tesárskej rodiny, a tak počiatočné klasické i hudobné vzdelanie dostal od rodičov. V klasickom vzdelávaní pokračoval v Prešove, Kecskeméte, teológiu študoval v Ostrihome, Bratislave a Trnave. Po vysvätení pôsobil v Starom Tekove, vo Vindšachte (teraz Štiavnické Bane) a Banskej Štiavnici. V rokoch 1852 – 1862 pôsobil na nemeckej fare v Pešti a od roku 1862 až do svojej smrti pôsobil v Majcichove. Spolupracoval pri zakladaní Matice slovenskej, v roku 1868 sa zúčastnil na založení novej politickej strany – Novej školy slovenskej. Taktiež sa venoval organizovaniu národného školstva a osvety.
Spočiatku bol činný najmä v periodikách; vydával časopis Cyrill a Method, neskôr redigoval Katolícke noviny pre -
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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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 -
Carl Spitteler
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924) was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring". His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems.
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Spitteler was born in Liestal. His father was an official of the government, being Federal Secretary of the Treasury from 1849–56. Young Spitteler attended the gymnasium at Basel, having among his teachers philologist Wilhelm Wackernagel and historian Jakob Burckhardt. From 1863 he studied law at the University of Zurich. In 1865–1870 he studied theology in the same institution, at Heidelberg and Basel, though when a position as pastor was offered him, he felt that he must decline it. He had begun t -
Hana Andronikova
Hana Andronikova byla česká spisovatelka.
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Vystudovala gymnázium ve Zlíně, pak Filozofickou fakultu Univerzity Karlovy v Praze, obory angličtina a čeština. Po ukončení studia pracovala jako personální manažerka v zahraničních i českých firmách. V roce 1999 odešla z podnikatelské sféry a věnovala se literatuře.
Autorčin debut Zvuk slunečních hodin získal v roce 2001 Literární cenu Knižního klubu a v roce 2002 cenu Magnesia Litera v kategorii objev roku. V březnu 2008 plánovala vydat nový román s pracovním názvem Blues v nakladatelství Odeon. Nakonec v roce 2010 vydala knihu Nebe nemá dno a v roce 2011 za tuto knihu obdržela Cenu čtenářů Magnesia Litera 2011.
Napsala divadelní hry Tanec přes plot (2008, spolu s Janou Svobodovou), Pakosti a draban -
Roxann Hill
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Roxann Hill is one of the most successful thriller authors in the German-speaking world. Her novels have delighted millions of readers and are regularly among the top titles on the bestseller lists. Her books have been translated into multiple languages.
Born in Brno/Czech Republic, the author lives with her family and two large dogs in Middle Franconia.
Deutsch:
Roxann Hill gehört zu einer der erfolgreichsten Thriller-Autorinnen im deutschsprachigen Raum. Ihre Romane begeistern Millionen von Leserinnen und Lesern und sind regelmäßig auf den Bestsellerlisten von Amazon und BILD zu finden.
Ihre Bücher wurden in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt.
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Petr Šabach
Český spisovatel, známý svými humoristickými romány a povídkami. Jeho otec byl voják z povolání.
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Šabach od roku 1966 studoval Střední knihovnickou školu, po 1. ročníku přestoupil na gymnázium, z něhož byl roku 1969 vyloučen, externě přijat zpět na SKŠ, kde v roce 1974 maturoval. Následovalo dálkové studium kulturologie na filozofické fakultě UK (obor absolvoval 1979).
Od roku 1974, do doby, kdy odešel na volnou nohu, vystřídal různá povolání (noční hlídač, metodik kulturního domu v Domě u Kamenného zvonu aj.). Po roce 2000 vyučoval tvůrčí psaní na Literární akademii (Soukromá vysoká škola Josefa Škvoreckého v Praze). Petr Šabach byl členem neformálního hospodského společenství Zlatá Praha.
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Andrej Sládkovič
Andrej Sládkovič (vlastným menom Andrej Braxatoris, pseudonymy Andrej Braxatoris-Sládkovič, Andrej Sládkovič, Ondřej Krasyslav Sládkovič) bol slovenský evanjelický kňaz, básnik, kritik literárnych a dramatických prác, publicista a prekladateľ.
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Miroslav Válek
bol slovenský básnik, prekladateľ, publicista, kultúrny organizátor, politik, významný reprezentant modernej slovenskej poézie a autor literatúry pre deti a mládež.
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Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote, Jr. was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play The Young Man From Atlanta.
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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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Radek John
Roku 1979 vystudoval scenáristiku a dramaturgii hraných filmů na Filmové a televizní fakultě Akademie múzických umění. V letech 1980 až 1993 byl redaktorem časopisu Mladý svět, do kterého přispíval reportážemi o narkomanech, vekslácích, prostitutkách, vlajkonoších a o panice kolem nemoci AIDS a také sériemi cestopisných reportáží.
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V 80. letech pracoval ve Filmovém studiu Barrandov jako scenárista a spolupracoval i s televizí. Je autorem scénářů k filmům Jen si tak trochu písknout, Sněženky a machři, Bony a klid, Proč?, Tankový prapor, Ta naše písnička česká II, Prachy dělaj člověka aj. Ve své literární tvorbě se zaměřuje zejména na problémy mladých lidí v dnešním světě, zejména pak drogy, násilí a prostituci. Jeho nejznámější román Memento b -
Ivan Olbracht
Ivan Olbracht, vlastním jménem Kamil Zeman, byl český spisovatel-prozaik, publicista, novinář a překladatel německé prózy, národní umělec.
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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 -
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E.H.W. Meyerstein
Edward Harry William Meyerstein (August 11, 1889 – September 12, 1952) was an English writer and scholar. He wrote poetry and short stories, and a Life Of Thomas Chatterton.
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Meyerstein was born in Hampstead (then still in Middlesex). His father was a merchant and stockbroker who was generous benefactor to the Royal Free Hospital and who became High Sheriff of Kent, being knighted in 1938.
Meyerstein was educated at Holly Hill Hampstead, and then went to board at St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne. At St Cyprian's, he met the future painter Cedric Morris, started collecting manuscripts from local bookshops and won the Harrow History Prize. With this under his belt, his mother then sent him to Harrow. Brought up as a Protestant, he was baptised b -
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Milan Rúfus
Milan Rúfus was a Slovak poet, essayist, children's writer and academic.
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He was born in Závažná Poruba, in the Zilina region. As a student at the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava he studied Slovak language and literature, and history. From 1952-1989 he lectured at the university on the history of Slovak and Czech literature. From 1971-1972 he taught at a university in Naples. He retired in 1990 and lived with his family in Bratislava. At age 80 he died at University Hospital in that city.
Rúfus published his first poems in the 1940s and his first collection, Až dozrieme ("When We Grow Mature") in 1956. Another 20 poetry books followed. A children's book, Modlitbičky ("Little Prayers") has been called his most successful wo -
John Roy Chapman
John Roy Chapman (1927–2001) was a British actor, playwright and screenwriter.
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Vladimír Páral
Vladimír Páral, pseudonym Jan Laban, je spisovatelem prózy. Pochází z Prahy jako syn důstojníka. Brzy po jeho narození se rodina přestěhovala do Brna, kde prožil dětství, studium na reálném gymnáziu a první rok na brněnské technice. Nakonec se však rozhodl pro chemii a vystudoval vysokou školu v Pardubicích. Stal se inženýrem.
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Po ukončení studií pracoval Vladimír Páral v chemickém průmyslu postupně v Liberci, Jablonci na Jizerou, Plzni a Ústí nad Labem. Při tom psal a když již měl za sebou několik úspěšných románů, chemický obor opustil a stal se v letech 1967 - 72 spisovatelem z povolání.
Od roku 1972 do 1979 pracoval jako redaktor Severočeského nakladatelství v Ústí nad Labem a nyní se opět věnuje psaní.
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Květa Legátová
Květa Legátová, born Věra Hofmanová, was a Czech novelist and writer whose work spanned a period from the 1950s to the 2000s. Her best known work, a 2001 collection of short stories and essays entitled "Želary," and her 2002 book, "Jozova Hanule," were adapted into the 2003 film, Želary.
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