Sievernich. In his youth, Čapek was Franz Bonaparta's apprentice and participated in the experiment on the Liebert twins. When Čapek arrived in Frankfurt,...

contemporary Czech literature. Franz Kafka Prize (Cena Franze Kafky) : an international literary award named after Franz Kafka. Karel Čapek Prize (Czech PEN) (Cena...

stimulated emission of radiation; robot (1921) from Czech writer Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots); and agitprop (1930; a portmanteau...

Lustig became the eighth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize, and the third recipient of the Karel Čapek Prize in 1996. Lustig was married to Věra Weislitzová...

yet to produce a figure comparable to H.G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon, Karel Čapek or Stanisław Lem." Rottensteiner described Roger Zelazny, Barry N. Malzberg...

Richard Weiner), civilism (Čapek brothers) and visions of a universal brotherhood of mankind (Ivan Olbracht, Karel Matěj Čapek Chod, F. X. Šalda). The interwar...

identified with Satan, who was expelled from heaven MPC · 1930 1931 Čapek 1969 QB Karel Čapek (1890–1938), Czech playwright MPC · 1931 1932 Jansky 1971 UB1...

him some solace. He visited Kafka's house in Prague, read Rilke and Karel Čapek, reflected on his idol Lu Xun, and was moved by a Mayakovsky play in Brno...

Security and Insecurity (2000) Velký věk chce mít též velké mordy (2001) Karel Capek: Life and Work (2002) Premiér a anděl (2003) Moje šílené století (My Crazy...

theologian Aloisia Veit (1891–1940), second cousin of Adolf Hitler Norbert Čapek (1870–1942), founder of the Czechoslovak Unitarian Church A total of 310...

revoluce; 1925) translated into English as The Making of a State (1927). Karel Čapek wrote a series of articles, Hovory s T.G.M. ("Conversations with T.G.M.")...

Betjeman Ambrose Bierce Jorge Luis Borges Bertolt Brecht Bill Burroughs Karel Čapek Hoagy Carmichael Rudolf Carnap Ray Chandler Marc Chagall Charlie Chaplin...

experiences and made them his own. Čapek then arrives and tells Tenma that he is going after Franz Bonaparta, however Čapek is gunned down shortly afterwards...

In 1917, the painter group Tvrdošíjní ("Stubborns") was founded by Josef Čapek, Jan Zrzavý, Václav Špála, Vlastimil Hofman, Bedřich Feuerstein, Zdeněk...

Karel Havlíček Borovský Alois Bohdan Brixius Max Brod Otokar Březina Karel Čapek Svatopluk Čech František Čelakovský Cosmas of Prague Jakub Deml Ivan Diviš...

Pavel Janák – Adria Palace (1923–1924) Ladislav Machoň – Josef and Karel Capek Villa (1923–1924) Alois Dryák – Radiopalác (1922–1925) Pavel Janák, František...

(Rossum's Universal Robots), Karel Čapek's 1921 play that coined the term robot. The play was written in Prague, and while Čapek denied that he modeled the robot...

Buren David Burliuk Wladimir Burliuk Paul Cadmus Alexander Calder Josef Čapek Norman Carlberg Emily Carr Carlo Carrà Clarence Holbrook Carter Mary Cassatt...

Robots (1921) by Karel Čapek We (1921) by Yevgeny Zamyatin Miasto światłości (1924) by Mieczysław Smolarski The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka The Foundation...

represented in the Czech lands mainly by expressionists and cubists: Josef Čapek, Emil Filla, Bohumil Kubišta or Jan Zrzavý. Surrealism emerged particularly...

Karel Čapek and his artist-brother Josef Čapek. The narrative employs modes of science fiction, fantasy and horror found in the works of Čapek and Franz Kafka...

Edwards, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. G. Wells, Valery Bryusov and Karel and Josef Čapek were all published in Der Ochideengarten. German language writers for the...

Kocourek, Cibula → Cibulka, Petržela → Petrželka, Chalupa → Chaloupka, Čáp → Čapek, Beran – Beránek. The most common Czech surnames are Novák ("Newman"), Svoboda...

Other important Czech writers include Milan Kundera, Karel Čapek, Jaroslav Hašek, Jan Neruda, Franz Kafka, Bohumil Hrabal, Viktor Dyk, Kosmas, Pavel Kohout...

Broch (1886–1951) Basil Bunting (1900–1985) Ivan Cankar (1876–1918) Karel Čapek (1890–1938) Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961)...

followed by a return to realistic, civilian theatre (František Langer, Karel Čapek). Avantgarde theatre also flourished, focusing on removing the barriers...

for the prize. In 1935, the Nobel Committee shortlisted the authors Karel Čapek, Miguel de Unamuno, John Masefield, Gilbert Keith Chesterton and Roger Martin...

Carmelite priest and professor of philosophy, died 26 July 1942 Norbert Čapek (1870–1942) founder of the Unitarian Church in the Czech Republic Blessed...

(1369–1415) – religious reformer Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) – composer Karel Čapek (1890–1938) – writer, author of R.U.R. Božena Němcová – writer, author of...

October 21 – Martin Gardner, American writer (d. 2010) October 24 – František Čapek, Czechoslovakian canoeist (d. 2008)[citation needed] October 25 – John Berryman...