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Miloš Urban
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Vystudoval moderní filologii na katedrách anglistiky a nordistiky na FF UK v Praze (1986–1992), v letech 1992–2000 pracoval jako redaktor v nakladatelství Mladá fronta, od roku 2001 v nakladatelství A…

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Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park K…
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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…
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Betty Mahmoody (born June 9, 1945) is an American author and public speaker best known for her book, Not Without My Daughter, which was subsequently made into a film of the same name. She is the Presi…
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Francesco Petrarca
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Famous Italian poet, scholar, and humanist Francesco Petrarca, known in English as Petrarch, collected love lyrics in Canzoniere .

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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…
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Jakuba Katalpa (vlastním jménem Tereza Jandová) je česká spisovatelka a výtvarnice. Vystudovala bohemistiku, mediální studia a psychologii.
Jiří Hájíček
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Jiří Hájíček vyrůstal na venkově, kde po vysokoškolských studiích také několik let pracoval v zemědělství. Od konce devadesátých let žije v Českých Budějovicích. Debutoval sbírkou povídek Snídaně na r…
Jaroslav Rudiš
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Vyrostl v Lomnici nad Popelkou. Navštěvoval gymnázium v Turnově, po něm vystudoval Pedagogickou fakultu Technické univerzity v Liberci (obor němčina – dějepis). Dále studoval v Praze a Curychu. V lete…
Karel Havlíček Borovský
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Karel Havlíček Borovský was a Czech writer, poet, critic, politician, journalist, and publisher.
Jan Skácel
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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. …
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Kateřina Tučková
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Kateřina Tučková (nar. 1980) vystudovala dějiny umění a bohemistiku na FF MU v Brně, v současné době pracuje jako kurátorka. Debutovala novelou Montespaniáda (2006), v roce 2009 vydala román Vyhnání G…
Jan Zahradníček
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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 …
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Victoria Mas
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Victoria Mas was born in 1987. The Mad Women's Ball, her first novel, has won several prizes in France (including the Prix Stanislas and Prix Renaudot des Lycéens) and been hailed as the bestselling d…
Jan Tesař
Jan Tesař was a Czech historian and writer. He was a dissident in the times of communist Czechoslovakia.
Petra Stehlíková
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Vystudovala střední zdravotnickou školu — obor zdravotní laborant. Vystřídala několik zaměstnání, naposledy pracovala jako hotelová recepční. Své knihy nejprve vydávala vlastním nákladem (např. trilog…
Jakub Stanjura
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Žije v Praze. Vystudoval anglistiku a bohemistiku na Univerzitě Karlově. Jeho románový debut Srpny (2023) o manipulaci a gaslightingu se ihned po vydání stal knižním bestsellerem, dočkal se divadelníh…
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Miroslav Hlaučo (1967) vystudoval klinickou farmacii v Bratislavě, po ní také režii na DAMU a filmovou vědu na Filozofické fakultě v Praze. Po krátkém období, ve kterém se živil uměním, pracuje už řad…
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