Karel Čapek: Quick Facts

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Born	January 9, 1890 • Czechoslovakia
Died	December 25, 1938 (aged 48) • Prague • Czech Republic
Notable Works	“An Ordinary Life” • “Meteor” • “Power and Glory” • “R.U.R.” • “Tales from Two Pockets” • “The First Rescue Party” • “The Mother”

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Karel Čapek, 1938.

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Ivan Turgenev

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Samuel Beckett, 1965

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Ernest Hemingway

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Nikolay Gogol

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Oscar Wilde

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