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Born March 3, 1888 • Prague • Czechoslovakia
Died August 2, 1965 (aged 77) • Prague • Czechoslovakia
Notable Works “Jízdní hlídka” • “Periferie” • “The Camel Through the Needle’s Eye”
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
Czech writer
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Václav Havel
president of Czech Republic
Karel Čapek, 1938.
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Czech writer
Ivan Klíma, 2009
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Czech author
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Tom Stoppard
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Emil František Burian
Czech author and composer
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Iancu Văcărescu
Romanian author
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Russel Crouse
American dramatist
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Serafín Álvarez Quintero
Spanish writer
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Joaquín Álvarez Quintero
Spanish writer
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James Goldman
American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist
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Jason Miller
American actor and playwright
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Mary Hayley Bell
British author and actress
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Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
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Howard Lindsay
American playwright
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
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Charles Dickens
British novelist
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Samuel Johnson
English author
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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish writer