Skvorecky left his native Czechoslovakia in 1969—in the wake of the Soviet invasion—and has been living in Canadian exile ever since. For the last 30 years, he has published copiously in Czech and has ...

Czech author Josef Skvorecky, who took a stand against communist authorities in his native country by publishing banned works, has died aged 87. His wife Zdena Salivarova told the Czech CTK news ...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech emigre writer Josef Skvorecky, who published the works of former President Vaclav Havel and other authors persecuted by the communist government at home, died of cancer in ...

The cast iron pot is a good metaphor for one form of the novel. A writer throws in a wide range of materials and mixes them up with a single obligation: make sure the varied ingredients don’t cancel ...

Josef Skvorecky is one of the Czech Republic's most famous writers. Like Milan Kundera, Arnost Lustig and a host of other Czech authors, Skvorecky left his homeland for the West -- which, for ...

Like his friend Vaclav Havel, the late Czech President and playwright, the Czech novelist Josef Skvorecky, who died Jan. 3 at 87, will be remembered as a writer with a shrewd–but much ...

Josef Skvorecky, a Czech exile and author who published works by Vaclav Havel and Milan Kundera that had been banned by communist authorities in their native country, has died. He was 87. Josef ...

he influential Czech novelist Josef Skvorecky, an admirer and champion of jazz musicians and the freedom they represent, has died in Toronto. He was 87. Skvorecky and his wife moved to Canada after ...

Michael Ledeen has a nice piece on the great Czech-Canadian writer who died Jan 3. The obituary from The Telegraph is here. We were given a copy of “The Engineer of Human Souls” more than 20 years ago ...