Viktor Fischl
Also known as
Avigdor Dagan
and אביגדור דגן
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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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William Saroyan
William Saroyan was an Armenian-American writer, renowned for his novels, plays, and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his unique literary style, often characterized by a deep appreciation for everyday life and human resilience. His works frequently explored themes of Armenian-American immigrant experiences, particularly in his native California, and were infused with optimism, humor, and sentimentality.
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Saroyan's breakthrough came with The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), a short story that established him as a major literary voice during the Great Depression. He went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940 for The Time of Your Life, though he declined the award, and in 1943, he won an Academy Award fo -
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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.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. -
Denis Diderot
Work on the Encyclopédie (1751-1772), supreme accomplishment of French philosopher and writer Denis Diderot, epitomized the spirit of thought of Enlightenment; he also wrote novels, plays, critical essays, and brilliant letters to a wide circle of friends and colleagues.
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert contributed.
This artistic prominent persona served as best known co-founder, chief editor, and contributor.
He also contributed notably to literature with Jacques le fataliste et son maître (Jacques the Fatalist and his Master), which emulated Laurence Sterne in challenging conventions regarding structure and content, while also examining ideas about free will. Diderot also authored of the known dialogue, Le Neveu de Rameau (Rameau's Nep -
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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Gustav Meyrink
The illegitimate child of a baron and an actress, Meyrinck spent his childhood in Germany, then moving to today's Czech Republic where he lived for 20 years. The city of Prague is present in most of his work along with various religious, occult and fantastic themes. Meyrinck practiced yoga all his life.
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Curious facts:
He unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide at the age of 24. His son committed suicide at the same age with success.
Meyrinck founded his own bank but was accused of fraud for which he spent 2 months in prison.
He worked as a translator and translated in German 15 volumes by Charles Dickens while working on his own novels.
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Ota Pavel
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Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) - prozaik, poeta, publicysta. Urodził się w Żytomierzu w Ukrainie, zmarł śmiercią samobójczą w Warszawie. Studiował polonistykę na podziemnym Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, brał aktywny udział w podziemnym życiu kulturalnym w czasie wojny. W 1943 roku został aresztowany, trafił do obozu koncentracyjnego w Oświęcimiu, następnie przetransportowano go między innymi do Dachau. W 1946 roku powrócił do kraju. Po 1948 roku stał się zwolennikiem partii komunistycznej, a swoją twórczość podporządkował założeniom realizmu socjalistycznego. Zadebiutował w 1942 roku cyklem wierszy Gdziekolwiek ziemia. W 1948 roku opublikował dwa tomy opowiadań - Pożegnanie z Marią i Kamienny świat - które spotkały się z szerokim odzewem.
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Ève Curie
Ève Curie Labouisse, a journalist and humanitarian, is best known for her biography of her mother, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie. Published in 1937, “Madame Curie” chronicled the life of Marie Curie, who earned the Nobel Prize twice, first in physics in 1903 and again in chemistry in 1911. The book quickly became a bestseller and in 1943 was made into a Hollywood film, starring Greer Garson as Marie and Walter Pidgeon as Pierre.
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In wide demand as a lecturer after “Madame Curie” was published, Labouisse was also known for her staunch public advocacy of the Free French cause after the Nazis occupied France in 1940. After the war, she was a publisher of the French newspaper Paris-Press, and in the early 1950s was a special advis -
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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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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(Arabic: كارل تشابك) (Hebrew: קארל צ'אפק) (Japanese: 카렐 차페크) (Russian: Карел Чапек) -
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. -
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.
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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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Jakub Małecki
Pisarz, autor książek: Błędy (2008), Przemytnik cudu (2008), Zaksięgowani (2009), Dżozef (2011), W odbiciu (2011), Odwrotniak (2013) i Dygot (2015).
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Napisał rownież kilkanaście opowiadań ogłoszonych w prasie i w antologiach. Przełożył z języka angielskiego wiele pozycji, między innymi Brudne wojny Jeremy’ego Scahilla, Paryż wyzwolony Antony’ego Beevora, Moją prawdę Mike’a Tysona i zbiór korespondencji pod tytułem Listy niezapomniane. Publikował w „Newsweeku”, „Polityce”, Angorze”, „Znaku”, „Nowej Fantastyce” i „Tygodniku Powszechnym”.
Laureat nagrody Śląkfa w kategorii „Twórca roku”, dwukrotnie nominowany do Nagrody im. Janusza A. Zajdla. Za przekład książki Listy niezapomniane na język polski zdobył Nagrodę Literacką Miesięcznika KSIĄŻKI. Za -
Jakub Arbes
Jakub Arbes (12. června 1840 v Praze na Smíchově – 8. dubna 1914 tamtéž) byl český spisovatel a novinář. Sympatizoval s májovci, ale nepatřil k nim, protože tvořil za jiných okolností než oni.
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V rodném Smíchově strávil celé mládí. Chodil v letech 1851 až 1854 do farní maltézské školy u P. Marie Vítězné na Malé Straně. Pocházel z chudých poměrů a měl se jít učit obuvnictví. Měl však velmi dobré známky ve škole a proto jej rodiče poslali na studie. Začínal na nižší reálce u sv. Jakuba, kde se seznámil s Juliem Zeyerem. Pak pokračoval na novoměstské vyšší německé reálce v Mikulandské ulici, kde poznal Jana Nerudu jako učitele češtiny. Na škole zůstal do roku 1859. Poté sice od roku 1859 studoval v Praze polytechniku, ale více se věnoval jiným o -
Pierre Boulle
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Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963) that were both made into award-winning films.
Boulle was an engineer serving as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, when he was captured and subjected to two years' forced labour. He used these experiences in The Bridge over the River Kwai, about the notorious Death Railway, which became an international bestseller. The film by David Lean won many Oscars, and Boulle was credited with writing the screenplay, because its two genuine authors had been blacklisted.
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Radka Denemarková
Radka Denemarková vystudovala germanistiku a bohemistiku na FF UK, 1997 získala doktorát. Pracovala v Ústavu pro českou literaturu AV ČR, též jako dramaturgyně v Divadle Na zábradlí. Od roku 2004 na volné noze. Publikovala monografii Evalda Schorma Sám sobě nepřítelem (1998), redigovala sborník Zlatá šedesátá (2000), je autorkou studie Ohlédnutí za Milenou Honzíkovou (in: Dopis zmizelému, 2003). V roce 2005 vyšla její prozaická prvotina A já pořád kdo to tluče, o rok později román Peníze od Hitlera (Magnesia Litera za nejlepší prózu roku). Polské vydání bylo nominováno na cenu Angelus (2009), za německé obdržela Usedomskou literární cenu (2011, laudatio Hellmuth Karasek) a Cenu Georga Dehia (2012, laudatio Andreas Kossert). Románová monogra
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Han Kang
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소설가 한강
Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” -
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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Agata Romaniuk
Socjolożka z doktoratem z Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Absolwentka Polskiej Szkoły Reportażu i założycielka Grupy Reporterskiej Głośniej. W 2017 zainicjowała projekt badawczo-reporterski Światła Małego Miasta, który opisywał życie Polaków w najmniejszych miasteczkach. Publikuje teksty w Dużym Formacie, Przekroju, Piśmie i magazynie Non/Fiction. W maju 2019 ukazała się jej książka reporterska „Z miłości? To współczuję. Opowieści z Omanu”. Jest autorką dwujęzycznej książki dla dzieci pt. „Bal u lamorożca. Polsko-ukraińskie bajki o przyjaźni” wydanej przez Zygzaki.
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