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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
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Klíma, Ivan
Ivan Klíma
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Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard
British writer
Emil František Burian
Czech author and composer
Joaquín Álvarez Quintero
Spanish writer
Russel Crouse
American dramatist
Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
Serafín Álvarez Quintero
Spanish writer
Howard Lindsay
American playwright
James Goldman
American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist
Iancu Văcărescu
Romanian author
Mary Hayley Bell
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Jason Miller
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
British novelist
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer