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In Mailbox this week: Charity projects covered on Radio Prague; the Czech
national tree; 'beer spa'; author Josef Skvorecky. Listeners quoted:
Marcel Voracka, Karin Roos, Anette Harris, Robbin McNeill, Jim and Barbara
Wolford, Stanley Vorce, USA; Jim Van Wyck, Nancy Nickle, Canada.
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Current AffairsJosef Skvorecky, author of nostalgia and irony, celebrates eightieth birthday
Josef Skvorecky, author of many internationally acclaimed novels such as
The Cowards, The Bass Saxophone, and The Miracle Game, celebrates his
eightieth birthday on Monday. A fan of Anglo-American culture, his first
publication, the Cowards, is set in his native Nachod, east Bohemia,
during the Second World War. Instead of fighting for their country, the
town's youth prefers to listen to jazz, live life, and view the political
developments with black humour and scepticism. More
Current AffairsJosef Skvorecky's literary academy opens this autumn
Up to now would-be Czech writers and journalists have honed their skills at the faculties of philosophy or journalism of Charles University. As of this autumn they finally have an alternative. In a groundbreaking initiative, the internationally renowned Czech-born writer Josef Skvorecky has set up an Academy of Creative Writing, the first institution of higher learning of this type in the Czech Republic. has more More
