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Radek John
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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 re…

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Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bes…
Guy de Maupassant
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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by…
Molière
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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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Romain Rolland
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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 tribu…
Bohumil Hrabal
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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 t…
Carlo Goldoni
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Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Gold…
Michal Viewegh
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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 a…
Nikolai Gogol
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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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Karel Hynek Mácha
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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…
Ladislav Fuks
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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 holoka…
Karel Čapek
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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 pre…
Christiane V. Felscherinow
DE: Vera Christiane Felscherinow wurde als jugendliche Drogenabhängige zu einer Symbolfigur für die Verbreitung des Drogenmissbrauchs in Deutschland und der damit verbundenen Probleme in der deutschen…
Karel Jaromír Erben
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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.

He was born …
Zdeněk Jirotka
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Zdeněk Jirotka was born in Ostrava on January 7, 1911 and died in Prague on April 12, 2003.

After not finishing his studies at secondary school he served out as a bricklayer, later (1933) he graduated …
Viktor Dyk
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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 …
Karel Havlíček Borovský
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Karel Havlíček Borovský was a Czech writer, poet, critic, politician, journalist, and publisher.
Jan Otčenášek
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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 zanech…
Irena Dousková
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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. …
František Hrubín
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Jiří Šulc
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Jiří Šulc vystudoval právnickou fakultu v Praze. Patnáct let působil v bezpečnostních složkách České republiky, poté pracoval v Evropské komisi v Bruselu. Roku 2007 vydal debut Dva proti Říši, histori…
Michael Třeštík
Michael Třeštík je český prozaik, architekt, publicista, vydavatel a dokumentarista. Je ženatý s režisérkou dokumentárních filmů Helenou Třeštíkovou.

Jeho otcem byl klavírní virtuos, skladatel a hudebn…
Alena Mornštajnová
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Alena Mornštajnová vystudovala angličtinu a češtinu na Filozofické fakultě Ostravské univerzity. V současné době pracuje jako lektorka anglického jazyka a překladatelka. Žije ve Valašském Meziříčí. V …
Viola Stern Fischerová
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