Of those that stayed, many chose to write in secret and remain unpublished ( the surrealists ( Zbyněk Havlíček, Karel Hynek ), Holan, Zahradníček, Jiří Kolář, Josef Jedlička, Jan Hanč, Jiřina Hauková, Josef Škvorecký, Egon Bondy, Jan Zábrana, Bohumil Hrabal ).

On the border between official and unofficial literature stood authors of historical novels ( Korner, Karel Michal ), and well as Bohumil Hrabal and Ota Pavel.

Bohumil Hrabal () ( 28 March 1914, Brno – 3 February 1997, Prague ) was a Czech writer, regarded as one of the best writers of the 20th century.

Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno ( Balbínova ul.

According to the organisers of a recent Hrabal exhibition in Brno, his biological father was “ probably ” Bohumil Blecha ( b. 1893-d, 1970 ), who was a year older than Marie, a friend from the neighbourhood and the son of a teacher.

Hrabal was baptised Bohumil František Kilián.

— Bohumil Hrabal in Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age

* Bohumil Hrabal embodies as no other the fascinating Prague.

* To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names — Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal painted among his beloved cats on the " Hrabal Wall " in Prague

* Closely Observed Trains: A Film by Jiří Menzel and Bohumil Hrabal, London: Lorrimer Publishing Ltd, 1971

The Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal used the method of automatic text in his famous book I served a British king.

Some of these films are adapted from works by Czech writers such as Bohumil Hrabal and Vladislav Vančura.

* Bohumil Hrabal

* Bohumil Hrabal, the most famous Hrabal

He stayed in Prague for 10 years, where he was invited by Oriental Institute to initiate a program of translation of modern Czech writers like Karel Capek, Milan Kundera, and Bohumil Hrabal, to Hindi ; he also learnt the Czech language, and translated nine world classics to Hindi, before returning home in 1968, as the result of Prague Spring.

Those were for example writers Jaroslav Seifert, František Hrubín, Bohumil Hrabal and Emanuel Frynta ; artists Jiří Kolář, Kamil Lhoták, Zdeněk Miler, Karel Teissig, Vladimír Komárek, Zdeněk Sklenář, Vilém Plocek who illustrated his books, Cyril Bouda and Helena Zmatlíková.

# Bohumil Hrabal – 20th century writer

* 1998-dedicated to Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal ’ s novel Closely Watched Trains is based on the act of sabotage in Lysá nad Labem during the Second World War in 1945.

rereleased Romantic Robot ( RR1991 ) 2 CD-set: Terezín: The Music 1941-44 by FISYO ( Filmový symfonický orchestr ) Prague conducted by Mario Klemens and Bambini di Praga led by Bohumil Kulínský ; this was the first available recording in Czech from a two-CD set produced by Alexander Goldscheider and released in 1991, which further contains Krása's string trio Tanec together with music from other leading Terezín composers, namely Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas and Gideon Klein

Two of Prague's most-visible landmarks are in Žižkov: the National Monument, with its giant statue of Jan Žižka on horseback ( by Bohumil Kafka, it is the largest equestrian statue in the world ); and the 216 meter-high Žižkov Television Tower, Prague's tallest structure.

After some initial planning, he consulted band president A. Frank Martin and Bohumil Makovsky, director of bands at Oklahoma A & M, both of whom agreed to help with the creation of the fraternity.

The vast collection contains a large number of Czech and Slovak paintings and sculptures, including works by Gutfreund, Kupka, Fila, Benes and Bohumil Kubišta.

Bohumil and his biological father never met formally, according to Blechová-Kalvodová.

* http :// art-bin. com / art / ahrabaleng. html Bohumil Hrabal-the Close Watcher of Trains

Bohumil Mathesius ( July 14, 1888 – June 2, 1952 ) was a Czech poet, translator, publicist and literary scientist – expert on Russian literature.

His cousin was Bohumil Mathesius.

Peter also has brother Bohumil and sister Eva.

Josef Václav Myslbek influenced an entire generation of Czech sculptors and his students include Stanislav Sucharda, Jan Štursa, Bohumil Kafka and Otokar Španiel.

Under the close watch of his StB controller, Major Bohumil Molnár, Frenzel returned to West Germany.

* Krajíc, Rudolf ; Smrčka, Bohumil ; Šechtlová, Marie, Tábor: jak jej fotografovali v letech 1876-1996 Šechtlovi Tábor: Odbor školství, kultury a tělovýchovy, 1997.

At the close of 1893, a small group of young people based around three brothers, Václav, Bohumil and Rudolf Rudl, had the idea of setting up a sports club.

The 9-meter high and 16. 5-ton monument to Jan Žižka by Bohumil Kafka is the largest bronze equestrian statue in the world.

The family moved in August 1919 to Nymburk, a small town on the banks of the Labe ( Elbe ), where František Hrabal became the brewery's manager.

She worked there with her future husband, František Hrabal ( b. 1889-d. 5 June 1966 ); a František Hrabal was listed as Bohumil's godfather when he was baptised on 4 February 1914, but František was also the first name of Bohumil's future step-grandfather, a soft-drinks trader.

In June 1934, Hrabal left school with a certificate that said he could be considered for a place at university on a technical course.

Hrabal took private classes in Latin for a year, passing a state exam in the town of Český Brod with an ' adequate ' grade on 3 October 1935.

In 1956, Hrabal married Eliška Plevová (' Pipsi ' to Hrabal, and in some of his works ), the 30-year-old ( b. 3 May 1926 ) daughter of Karel Pleva, a procurator and manager of a wood factory in the South Moravian town of Břeclav.

Blecha ’ s daughter, Drahomíra Blechová-Kalvodová, says her father told her when she was 18 that Hrabal was her half-brother.

František Hrabal, Hrabal ’ s stepfather, was a friend of Hrabal ’ s probable biological father, according to Blechová-Kalvodová.

Hrabal's half-brother, Břetislav Josef Hrabal, was born later that year ( b. 25 September 1916-d. 30 May 1985 ); Břetislav ( Slávek ) is said to have been an excellent raconteur.

In 1920, Hrabal began at the primary school in Nymburk.

Hrabal lived in the city from the late 1940s onward, for much of it ( 1950 – 1973 ) at 24 Na Hrázi ul.