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Title: Josef Škvoreckÿ papers
Date (inclusive): 1908-1994
Collection Number: 91008
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
Czech
Physical Description:
79 manuscript boxes
(32.9 Linear Feet)
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.
Creator:
Škvorecký, Josef, 1924-2012
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1991.
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[Identification of item], Josef Škvoreckÿ papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
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 |
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Czechoslovakia -- Emigration and immigration
Literature
Czechoslovakia -- Civilization
Czech literature
Czechoslovakia -- Intellectual life