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Jan NOVÁK

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This Czech-American novelist, screenwriter and dramatist was born in Kolín on April 4th 1953.

He has lived in the USA since 1970. He graduated in humanities at the University of Chicago and is now a freelance writer. He has published six books in Czech, of which his semi-factual, semi-fictional novel Zatím dobrý [So Far So Good] (2004; Magnesia Litera 2005) has received the most attention. It centres on “the resistance group of Ctirad and Josef Mašín and their subsequent escape from the republic across Germany in 1953. [...] However, the scope of the prose is much broader and takes in both the anti-Nazi activities of Josef Mašín the elder and the fate of the whole family and all the people involved in their story, as well as several other more general historical events.”  (Jan Nejedlý).

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