Josef Škvorecký CM (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjozɛf ˈʃkvorɛtskiː] ; September 27, 1924 – January 3, 2012) was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher. He spent...
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Škvorecký may refer to: Josef Škvorecký, (1924–2012), Czech writer 26314 Škvorecký, an asteroid This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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The Josef Škvorecký Award (Czech language: Cena Josefa Škvoreckého) is an award for the best original prose work of the preceding year. The award is named...
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When this movement began, the Stalinists were opposed to it, but as Josef Škvorecký writes in his The Bass Saxophone, “Its name was Dixieland. A type of...
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The Cowards (originally Zbabělci) is a Czech novel by Josef Škvorecký. Written in 1948–49 but not published until 1958, it is a story from the very end...
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"The Swell Season" name is derived from Hansard's favourite novel by Josef Škvorecký from 1975 bearing the same title. Their debut album, released in 2006...
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his elders (Vladimír Holan, Jiří Kolář) and his peers Václav Havel, Josef Škvorecký, Bohumil Hrabal). From 1954, he worked full-time as a translator and...
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house formed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1971 by Czech expatriate Josef Škvorecký and his wife Zdena Salivarová. The purpose of 68 Publishers was to...
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authorities, but later regretted it and claimed to her biographer, Josef Škvorecký: "I could have been as famous as Marlene Dietrich." After her engagement...
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Karel Hynek), Holan, Zahradníček, Jiří Kolář, Josef Jedlička, Jan Hanč, Jiřina Hauková, Josef Škvorecký, Egon Bondy, Jan Zábrana, Bohumil Hrabal). Most...
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