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Bohumil Hrabal
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Bohumil Hrabal was a person born on 1914-03-28 and died on 1997-02-03. His work period began in 1952. He is associated with the country HU.
His top works include Svatby v domě, Tanečnʹi hodiny pro staršʹi a pokročilʹe, Jak jsem obsluhoval anglického krále, Svaki dan čudo, and Poetický zápisnik. Records indicate a work count of 229, with other sources listing counts of 5 and 2.
Tags associated with his name include speech, Czech, Audiobook, pabitel, and GENIUSZ. He has 314 listeners and a playcount of 5840.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Europeana Sparql, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- František
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Czech Republic
- Place of death
- Prague
- Occupation
- prose writer
- Languages spoken
- Czech
- Notable work
- Too Loud a Solitude
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Laws
- Field of work
- visual arts
- Genre
- fiction
- Image
- Bohumil Hrabal 1985 český spisovatel foto Hana Hamplová.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bohumil Hrabal
- date of birth
- 1914-03-28
- date of death
- 1997-02-03
- birth name
- Bohumil František Kilian
- name in native language
- Bohumil Hrabal
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Art
- writing language
- Czech
- start of work period
- 1952-00-00
- name
- Bohumil Hrabal
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Bohumil Hrabal, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Bohumil Hrabal ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈboɦumɪl ˈɦrabal]; 28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century.
Early life
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