How to Pronounce Josef Škvorecký
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Sep 27, 1924 Náchod, Hradec Králové Region, Czech Republic Died on 03 Jan 2012 (aged 87)
Czech-Canadian writer and publisher
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About Josef Škvorecký
- Josef Škvorecký, (Czech pronunciation: ['joz?f '?kvor?tski?] (listen); September 27, 1924 – January 3, 2012) was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher.
- He spent half of his life in Canada, publishing and supporting banned Czech literature during the communist era.
- Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980.
- He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country.
- Škvorecký's fiction deals with several themes: the horrors of totalitarianism and repression, the expatriate experience, and the miracle of jazz.
