Škvorecký, Josef.

Biographical Note

• 1924 September 27: Born, Náchod, Czechoslovakia
• 1951: PhD, Charles University, Prague
• 1956: Deputy editor-in-chief, World Literature Today
• 1958: Married Zdenka Josefa Salivarová
• 1969: Emigrated to Canada and founded Sixty-Eight Publishers for independent Czech literature
• 1973 - : Lecturer, Voice of America
• 1975 - 1990 : Professor of English, University of Toronto, Ontario
• 1977: Author, Samožerbuch
• 1980: Received Neustadt Prize for Literature, University of Oklahoma
• 1984: Author, Scherzo capriccioso (Dvořák in Love)
• 1985: Received Canadian Governor General's Award
• 1990: Received Order of the White Lion Received literature prize, Echoing Green Foundation Advisor to Václav Havel, president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic
• 1999: Received Czech Republic's State Prize for Literature
• 2001: Received Dangea prize

From the guide to the Josef Skvorecký papers, 1908-1994, (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace)