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Bohumil Hrabal

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Bohumil Hrabal

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Czech writer (1914–1997)

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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.

Person · Open Library

Born
1914
Died
1997
Works
229

Top works

  • Svatby v domě
  • Tanečnʹi hodiny pro staršʹi a pokročilʹe
  • Jak jsem obsluhoval anglického krále
  • Svaki dan čudo
  • Poetický zápisnik

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
HU
Active from
1985

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
314
Total plays
5,840

Tags

speechCzechAudiobookpabitelGENIUSZ

Born in Brno-Židenice, Moravia, he lived briefly in Polná, but was raised in the Nymburk brewery as the manager's stepson. Hrabal received a Law degree from Prague's Charles University, and lived in the city from the late 1940s on. He lived at 24 Na Hrázi Street in Prague - Libeň; the house does not exist any more. He worked as a manual laborer alongside Vladimír Boudník in the Kladno ironworks in the 1950s, an experience which inspired the "hyper-realist" texts he was writing at the time. <a hr

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
František
Gender
male
Citizenship
Czech Republic
Place of death
Prague
Occupation
prose writer
Languages spoken
Czech
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
Sources (4)

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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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bohumil Hrabal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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