1924 September 27Born, Náchod, Czechoslovakia1951PhD, Charles University, Prague1956Deputy editor-in-chief, World Literature Today1958Married Zdenka Josefa Salivarová1969Emigrated to Canada and founded Sixty-Eight Publishers for independent Czech literature1973Lecturer, Voice of America19751990Professor of English, University of Toronto, Ontario1977Author, Samožerbuch1980Received Neustadt Prize for Literature, University of Oklahoma1984Author, Scherzo capriccioso (Dvořák in Love)1985Received Canadian Governor General's Award 1990Received Order of the White LionReceived literature prize, Echoing Green FoundationAdvisor to Václav Havel, president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic 1999Received Czech Republic's State Prize for Literature2001Received Dangea prizeFrom the guide to the Josef Skvorecký papers, 1908-1994, (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace)