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Born March 3, 1888 • Prague • Czechoslovakia
Died August 2, 1965 (aged 77) • Prague • Czechoslovakia
Notable Works “Jízdní hlídka” • “Periferie” • “The Camel Through the Needle’s Eye”
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
Czech writer
Václav Havel
Václav Havel
president of Czech Republic
Karel Čapek, 1938.
Karel Čapek
Czech writer
Klíma, Ivan
Ivan Klíma
Czech author
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
British writer
Emil František Burian
Czech author and composer
Serafín Álvarez Quintero
Spanish writer
Russel Crouse
American dramatist
Joaquín Álvarez Quintero
Spanish writer
Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
James Goldman
American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist
Howard Lindsay
American playwright
Jason Miller
American actor and playwright
Mary Hayley Bell
British author and actress
Iancu Văcărescu
Romanian author
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer