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  Josef Lada

  Josef Lada was a Czech painter and writer.
  
  He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War One novel The Good Soldier Švejk. He produced nearly 600 cartoons of the Švejk characters, depicting Austria-Hungary officers and civil servants as incompetent, abusive and often drunk.
  
  Born in the small village of Hrusice in a cobbler's family, he went to Prague at the age of 14 to become an apprentice binder. He loved to draw and paint. Entirely self-taught, he created his own style as a caricaturist for newspapers, and later as an illustrator. He wrote and illustrated the adventures of Mikeš, a little black cat who could talk.
  
  Lada produced landscapes, created frescoes and designed costumes for plays and films. Over the years he crea

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  Alena Mornštajnová

  Alena Mornštajnová vystudovala angličtinu a češtinu na Filozofické fakultě Ostravské univerzity. V současné době pracuje jako lektorka anglického jazyka a překladatelka. Žije ve Valašském Meziříčí. V roce 2013 vyšel její debutový román Slepá mapa, který byl nominován na Cenu Česká kniha 2014.

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  Aneta Jadowska

  Aneta Jadowska przyszła na świat w Radomsku, w 1981 roku. Pierwsze opowiadanie opublikowała w wieku dziewiętnastu lat, w lokalnej gazecie. Jej debiut powieściowy nastąpił w 2012, gdy ukazał się Złodziej Dusz, pierwszy tom planowanej heksalogii.

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  Kateřina Tučková

  Kateřina Tučková (nar. 1980) vystudovala dějiny umění a bohemistiku na FF MU v Brně, v současné době pracuje jako kurátorka. Debutovala novelou Montespaniáda (2006), v roce 2009 vydala román Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch, za který obdržela cenu Magnesia Litera 2010 – Knižní klub Cena čtenářů a byla nominována na Cenu Josefa Škvoreckého, Magnesii Literu za prózu a Cenu Jiřího Ortena. Je autorkou několika odborných publikací z oblasti českého výtvarného umění, na pomezí historie a krásné literatury se pohybuje beletrizovaný životopis Můj otec Kamil Lhoták (2008).
  

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  Zdeněk Jirotka

  Zdeněk Jirotka was born in Ostrava on January 7, 1911 and died in Prague on April 12, 2003.
  
  After not finishing his studies at secondary school he served out as a bricklayer, later (1933) he graduated from building technical school in Hradec Králové.
  
  After finishing the school he entered the Czechoslovak Army, where he served till 1940 as an infantry officer. Then he worked at the Ministry of public works and till the end of the WWII he made his living by literature. He worked as an editor of Lidové noviny (newspaper) from 1940 to 1945, then he became an editor of Svobodné noviny (newspaper), after 1951 he worked for two years for the humorous journal Dikobraz. Between 1953 and 1962 he worked in the Czechoslovak broadcast, from where he came

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  Jakuba Katalpa

  Jakuba Katalpa (vlastním jménem Tereza Jandová) je česká spisovatelka a výtvarnice. Vystudovala bohemistiku, mediální studia a psychologii.

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  Joanna Chmielewska

  Joanna Chmielewska is the pen name of Irena Kühn (born 2 April 1932 in Warsaw), a Polish writer and screenplay author. Her work is often described as "ironic detective stories". Her novels, which have been translated into at least nine languages, have sold more than 6 million copies in Poland and over 10 million in Russia.
  
  Joanna Chmielewska graduated as an architect in 1954 from Warsaw University of Technology, and worked as a designer before devoting herself to writing. Her first short story was published in the magazine Kultura i Życie (Culture and Life) in 1958 and her first novel, Klin (The Wedge), in 1964. She loves horse races and gambling: both hobbies have been mentioned extensively in her books. She is also a connoisseur of amber,

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  Dominik Dán

  Dominik Dán je slovenský spisovateľ detektívnych románov. Píše pod pseudonymom, v skutočnosti nemá 56 rokov (aj keď tento údaj bol vytvorený celkom náhodne pri chybnom zadaní spisovateľovho dátumu narodenia pri vydávaní knihy) a v súčasnosti autorsky spolupracuje pri tvorbe nového slovenského seriálu Kriminálka Staré mesto.
  

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  Zdeněk Jirotka

  Zdeněk Jirotka was born in Ostrava on January 7, 1911 and died in Prague on April 12, 2003.
  
  After not finishing his studies at secondary school he served out as a bricklayer, later (1933) he graduated from building technical school in Hradec Králové.
  
  After finishing the school he entered the Czechoslovak Army, where he served till 1940 as an infantry officer. Then he worked at the Ministry of public works and till the end of the WWII he made his living by literature. He worked as an editor of Lidové noviny (newspaper) from 1940 to 1945, then he became an editor of Svobodné noviny (newspaper), after 1951 he worked for two years for the humorous journal Dikobraz. Between 1953 and 1962 he worked in the Czechoslovak broadcast, from where he came

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  Jan Skácel

  Jan Skácel was one of the best known Moravian poets of the 20th century.
  
  He often juxtaposed the fear stoked by the communist regime in Czechoslovakia and the highly free syntax of the Czech language. His poems are closely connected to the traditions and the nature of the region he lived in, Southern Moravia.
  
  Skácel was the editor of Host do domu, an important magazine on literature, between 1963 and 1969.

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