Josef Škvoreckÿ papers, 1908-1994

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Summary

Creators:
Škvorecký, Josef, 1924-2012
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, printed matter, and photographs relating to Czech and world literature, Czech culture, political and social conditions in Czechoslovakia, and Czech émigré life.
Extent:
79 manuscript boxes (32.9 Linear Feet)
Language:
Czech
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Josef Škvoreckÿ papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1924 September 27
Born, Náchod, Czechoslovakia
1951
PhD, Charles University, Prague
1956
Deputy editor-in-chief, World Literature Today
1958
Married Zdenka Josefa Salivarová
1969
Emigrated to Canada and founded Sixty-Eight Publishers for independent Czech literature
1973-
Lecturer, Voice of America
1975-1990
Professor of English, University of Toronto, Ontario
1977
Author, Samožerbuch
1980
Received Neustadt Prize for Literature, University of Oklahoma
1984
Author, Scherzo capriccioso (Dvořák in Love)
1985
Received Canadian Governor General's Award
1990
Advisor to Václav Havel, president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic
Received literature prize, Echoing Green Foundation
Received Order of the White Lion
1999
Received Czech Republic's State Prize for Literature
2001
Received Dangea prize
Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1991.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Restrictions:

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Josef Škvoreckÿ papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US