Škvorecký, Josef.

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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 Received Order of the White Lion Received literature prize, Echoing Green Foundation Advisor to Václav Havel, president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic 1999 Received Czech Republic's State Prize for Literature 2001 Received Dangea prize From the guide to the Josef Skvorecký papers, 1908-1994, (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace)

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