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Title: Josef Škvorecký papers
Date (inclusive): 1908-1994
Collection number: 91008
Creator:
Škvorecký, Josef.
Extent:
79 manuscript boxes
32.9 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Czech and world literature, Czech culture, political
and social conditions in Czechoslovakia, and Czech émigré life.
Language:
Czech and
English.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Josef Škvorecký papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1991.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
| 1924 September 27 | Born, Náchod, Czechoslovakia |
| 1951 | PhD, Charles University, Prague |
| 1956 | Deputy editor-in-chief, World Literature Today |
| 1958 | Married Zdenka Josefa Salivarová |
| 1969 | Emigrated to Canada and founded Sixty-Eight Publishers for independent Czech literature |
| 1973- | Lecturer, Voice of America |
| 1975-1990 | Professor of English, University of Toronto, Ontario |
| 1977 | Author, Samožerbuch |
| 1980 | Received Neustadt Prize for Literature, University of Oklahoma |
| 1984 | Author, Scherzo capriccioso (Dvořák in Love) |
| 1985 | Received Canadian Governor General's Award |
| 1990 | Received Order of the White Lion |
| Received literature prize, Echoing Green Foundation | |
| Advisor to Václav Havel, president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic | |
| 1999 | Received Czech Republic's State Prize for Literature |
| 2001 | Received Dangea prize |
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Literature
Czech literature.
Czechs in foreign countries.
Czechoslovakia--Civilization.
Czechoslovakia--Intellectual life.