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    Bohumil Hrabal (Czech pronunciation: [ˈboɦumɪl ˈɦrabal]; 28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers...
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  • Hrabal is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997), Czech writer Jaroslav Hrabal (born 1974), Slovak retired footballer...
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  • Closely Watched Trains (category Films based on works by Bohumil Hrabal)
    Czechoslovakia during World War II. The film is based on a 1965 novel by Bohumil Hrabal. It was produced by Barrandov Studios and filmed on location in Central...
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  • Too Loud a Solitude (category Novels by Bohumil Hrabal)
    Solitude (Czech: Příliš hlučná samota) is a short novel by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. It was self-published in samizdat in 1976 and officially in Czechoslovakia...
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  • former dissident Bohumil Durdis (1903–1983), Czech weightlifter Bohumil Golián (1931–2012), Slovak former volleyball player Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997), Czech...
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  • Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age (category Novels by Bohumil Hrabal)
    hodiny pro starší a pokročilé) is a 1964 novel by the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. It tells the story of a man who recounts various events from his past...
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  • Cutting It Short (category Films based on works by Bohumil Hrabal)
    writer Bohumil Hrabal. The story is set in a brewery in a Czech small town. The film is an evocation of the childhood memories of Bohumil Hrabal in his...
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    Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura. Menzel was born in Prague in 1938 to Josef Menzel...
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  • I Served the King of England (category Novels by Bohumil Hrabal)
    (Czech: Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále) is a novel by the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. The story is set in Prague in the 1940s, during the Nazi occupation...
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    Literature: Wodehouse, P.G. (1963). Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.[page needed]; Bohumil Hrabal (1990). Příliš hlučná samota [Too Loud a Solitude].[page needed] Hermans...
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  • Served the King of England, first published in 1971 by Czech author Bohumil Hrabal as a traditional Ethiopian dish cooked for a visit to Prague by the...
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    Jan Hanč, Jiřina Hauková, Josef Škvorecký, Egon Bondy, Jan Zábrana, Bohumil Hrabal). Most of their works were published only during the 1960s and 1990s...
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    the Bohumil Hrabal Grammar School, the Nymburk Synagogue, the Tourist Information Centre, the water tower and the Old Fisher House. Bohumil Hrabal, who...
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  • Pearls of the Deep (category Films based on works by Bohumil Hrabal)
    Jaromil Jireš. The five segments are all based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal. The film was released in Czechoslovakia on 7 January 1966. The film...
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    • Octavio Paz (1989) • Christa Wolf (1990) • Kurt Vonnegut (1991) • Bohumil Hrabal (1992) • Seamus Heaney (1993) • J. M. Coetzee (1994) • Vladimir Voinovich...
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  • I Served the King of England (film) (category Films based on works by Bohumil Hrabal)
    directed by Jiří Menzel, based on Bohumil Hrabal's novel I Served the King of England. It is Menzel's sixth Hrabal adaptation for film. The film was released...
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    assassinated here Herz Homberg, born here Ernestine Schumann-Heink, born here Bohumil Hrabal, lived here Karel Hlaváček, was born and lived here Karel Janoušek,...
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    from Bohumil Hrabal's book Postřižiny (English as Cutting It Short), later made into a well-known film Cutting It Short (1980) by Jiří Menzel. Bohumil Hrabal...
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    • Octavio Paz (1989) • Christa Wolf (1990) • Kurt Vonnegut (1991) • Bohumil Hrabal (1992) • Seamus Heaney (1993) • J. M. Coetzee (1994) • Vladimir Voinovich...
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    • Octavio Paz (1989) • Christa Wolf (1990) • Kurt Vonnegut (1991) • Bohumil Hrabal (1992) • Seamus Heaney (1993) • J. M. Coetzee (1994) • Vladimir Voinovich...
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    • Octavio Paz (1989) • Christa Wolf (1990) • Kurt Vonnegut (1991) • Bohumil Hrabal (1992) • Seamus Heaney (1993) • J. M. Coetzee (1994) • Vladimir Voinovich...
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  • Rotters' Club has a sentence with 13,955 words. It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: a Czech language novel written...
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  • ISBN 978-0-674-70494-7. Charles Simic, "You Laugh Uncontrollably" (review of Bohumil Hrabal, Mr. Kafka and Other Tales from the Time of the Cult, translated from...
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    • Octavio Paz (1989) • Christa Wolf (1990) • Kurt Vonnegut (1991) • Bohumil Hrabal (1992) • Seamus Heaney (1993) • J. M. Coetzee (1994) • Vladimir Voinovich...
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    advertising before getting a job at an ironworks in Kladno, where he met Bohumil Hrabal. In 1952 Boudník, began working for ČKD Works in Prague. The factory...
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    and read them in circle of his close friends, among them Jan Zábrana, Bohumil Hrabal and other prohibited writers of the time. In 1966, after 18 years of...
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  • (Vladimír Holan, Jiří Kolář) and his peers Václav Havel, Josef Škvorecký, Bohumil Hrabal). From 1954, he worked full-time as a translator and became one of the...
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  • grounding. Bondy's work is very distinctive. He was a close friend of Bohumil Hrabal, another Prague writer, and is one of the most influential Czech intellectuals...
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    have compared Pilch's style to Witold Gombrowicz, Milan Kundera, or Bohumil Hrabal. Born and raised in the small town of Wisła in the Beskids in southern...
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  • many variants and corrections throughout the poems. The Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal used the method of automatic text in his famous book I Served the King...
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