Josef Škvorecký
Novelist, Author
1924 – 2012
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Who was Josef Škvorecký?
Josef Škvorecký, CM was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher who spent much of his life in Canada. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country. Škvorecký's fiction deals with several themes: the horrors of totalitarianism and repression, the expatriate experience, and the miracle of jazz.
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- Born
- Sep 27, 1924
Náchod - Also known as
- Josef Skvorecky
- Josef Škvorecký
- Josef Skvorecký
- dr. Josef Skvorecky
- Spouses
- Zdena Skvorecka
(1958 - 2012/01/03)
- Zdena Skvorecka
- Ethnicity
- Czech Canadians
- Nationality
- Czech Republic
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Philosophy
( - 1951)
- PhD, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
- Lived in
- Greater Toronto Area
( - 2012/01/03)
- Greater Toronto Area
- Died
- Jan 3, 2012
Toronto
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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