Awards & Winners

Josef Škvorecký

Date of Birth 27-September-1924
Place of Birth Náchod
(Czech Republic, Náchod District)
Nationality Czech Republic
Also know as Josef Skvorecky, Josef Škvorecký, Josef Skvorecký, dr. Josef Skvorecky
Profession Writer, Novelist, Publisher
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.

Awards by Josef Škvorecký

Check all the awards nominated and won by Josef Škvorecký.

1990


1984


Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
Honored for : Skvorcky the Engineer of Human Souls

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction The Engineer of Human Souls

1980


Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
(Fiction)
Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Neustadt International Prize for Literature