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Date of Birth
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27-September-1924
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Place of Birth
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Náchod
(Czech Republic, Náchod District)
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Nationality
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Czech Republic
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Also know as
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Josef Skvorecky, Josef SÌŒkvoreckyÌ, Josef Skvorecký, dr. Josef Skvorecky
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Profession
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Writer, Novelist, Publisher
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Josef Škvorecký, CM was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher who spent much of his life in Canada. 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.
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