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    Ivan Klíma (born Ivan Kauders, 14 September 1931) is a Czech novelist and playwright. He has received the Magnesia Litera award and the Franz Kafka Prize...
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    anti-fascist, anti-militarist, and critical of what he saw as "irrationalism". Ivan Klíma, in his biography of Čapek, notes his influence on modern Czech literature...
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  • Pictures of Guston, from Vanity Fair, 1989 Conversation in Prague with Ivan Klíma, from The New York Review of Books, 1990 An Exchange with Mary McCarthy...
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    Retrieved October 31, 2003. Horáková, Pavla (October 31, 2002). "Writer Ivan Klima wins Franz Kafka Prize". Radio Prague. Retrieved October 31, 2002. Official...
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  • Love and Garbage (Czech: Láska a smetí) is a 1986 novel by Czech writer Ivan Klíma. Banned from publishing in the Czechoslovakia while the country was under...
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  • Klímová, anglicized as Klima. Notable people with the surname include: Ivan Klíma, Czech author Jiří Klíma, Czech footballer Josef Klíma, Czech basketball...
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    describes a device identical to the one presented in this short story. Ivan Klíma mentions in his novel Love and Garbage (1986) the first story by Kafka...
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  • into English by Paul Selver and Ralph Neale in 1938; Capek biographer Ivan Klíma calls the Selver/Neale translation "a seriously flawed adaptation". Michael...
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  • Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klíma. Vilém Klíma was born on 10 April 1906 as Wilhelm Kauders. The reason why Klíma changed his name is related to...
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    which vary according to translation. On the meaning of the names, see Ivan Klíma, Karel Čapek: Life and Work, 2002, p. 82. The play begins in a factory...
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    Mácha, as well as books by 20th-century writers such as Bohumil Hrabal, Ivan Klíma, Ladislav Vančura, and Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, the poet Jaroslav...
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    Milan Kundera, Jan Procházka, Antonín Jaroslav Liehm, Pavel Kohout and Ivan Klíma. A few months later, at a party meeting, it was decided that administrative...
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    expressionism (Ladislav Klíma, Jakub Deml, Richard Weiner), civilism (Čapek brothers) and visions of a universal brotherhood of mankind (Ivan Olbracht, Karel...
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    Vítězslav Nezval, Arnošt Lustig, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Karel Havlíček Borovský, Ivan Klíma, Egon Erwin Kisch, Vladimír Holan, Julius Zeyer or Svatopluk Čech. From...
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    arrest and demanding the immediate release of Ai. The signatories include Ivan Klíma, Jiří Gruša, Jáchym Topol, Elfriede Jelinek, Adam Michnik, Adam Zagajewski...
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  • who has been cited as a major literary influence by Milan Kundera and Ivan Klima, among others, is generally considered the most revered living Czech author...
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    "Informing und Terror" Archived 4 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine by Ivan Klíma, about the Kundera controversy Salon October 2008 Leprosy by Jiří Stránský...
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  • Pictures of Guston Vanity Fair, 1989 Shop Talk Conversation in Prague with Ivan Klíma The New York Times Book Review, 1990 Shop Talk An Exchange with Mary McCarthy...
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    Milan Kundera, Jan Procházka, Antonín Jaroslav Liehm, Pavel Kohout and Ivan Klíma. A few months later, at a meeting of Party leaders, it was decided that...
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  • scientist, Talmudic scholar, and descendant of notable Prague family Ivan Klíma, Czech novelist Egon Lánský, Czech journalist and politician of Slovak...
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  • participated in a congress of the writers' union, which included Václav Havel, Ivan Klíma, Ludvík Vaculík, and photographer Oldřich Škácha. The writers' congress...
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    Brothers Čapek (1961) "R.U.R and the Insect Play" Oxford Paperbacks, p 106 Ivan Klíma Karel Čapek:Life and Work. Catbird Press, 2002 ISBN 0945774532, (p. 260-61)...
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  • Karel Kosík, Jiří Lederer, Milan Kundera, Václav Havel, Helena Klímová, Ivan Klíma, Pavel Kohout, Jan Procházka, Alexandr Kliment, Petr Pithart, Jaroslav...
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    and proclaims the "end of immortality". Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Klíma summarised Čapek's thematic intent of the play as follows: "What Čapek...
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    Others in attendance included communist party members Pavel Kohout, Ivan Klíma, and Milan Kundera, as well as non-Party member Václav Havel. Vaculík...
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  • Franz Kafka (1883–1924), novelist Siegfried Kapper (1821–1879), writer Ivan Klíma (born 1931), novelist, playwright Leopold Kompert (1822–1886), author...
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  • Coma with the work of writers such as Milan Kundera, Josef Škvorecký and Ivan Klíma. Michiko Kakutani praised the novel's translation while stating that the...
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    time were Ludvík Vaculík, Milan Kundera, Jan Procházka, Pavel Kohout and Ivan Klíma. Publication and further development of the magazine ceased, along with...
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  • (died 2016) August 22 - Maurice Gee, New Zealand novelist September 14 – Ivan Klíma, Czech novelist and dramatist September 15 – Kalim Siddiqui, Pakistani-born...
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  • Screenplay by Jiri Trnka Story by Ivan Klima Produced by Jiri Vanek Jaroslav Mozis Erma Kminkova Cinematography Jiri Safar Ivan Renc Edited by Hana Walachova...
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