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Jiri Kratochvil
Biography
Jiri Kratochvil,was born in 1940 in Brno. his father was a teacher. After high school. he studied Czech and Russian at the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University in Brno. He worked as a teacher and librarian before becoming a full-time writer. As his books could not be published except in samizdat, he worked at various jobs such as night watchman and telephone operator.
After the fall of communism, he became an art historian at theRegional Heritage Centre and subsequently a full-time writer. He has received various awards for his writing and written numerous stories and novels. One of his novels has been translated into English.
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1978 Případ s Chatnoirem (novel)
1990 Medvědí román (novel)
1992 Uprostřed nocí zpěv(novel)
1994 Orfeus z Kénigu (stories)
1994 Má lásko, postmoderno (stories)
1995 Avion(novel)
1996 Příběhy příběhů,(stories, essays)
1996 Siamský příbě (novel)
1997 Slepecká cvičení (plays)
1997 Nesmrtelný příběh
1999 Noční tango, (novel)
1999 A babička slaví devětadevadesáté narozeniny, 1999, (drama)
2001 Original text
Vyznání příběhovosti (essays)
2001 rno nostalgické i ironické, (articles)
2002 Lehni, bestie, (novella)
2004 Lady Carneval, (novel)
2007
Brněnské povídky, 2007 (stories)
2008 Černá skříňka, (plays)
2009 Slib (The Vow) (novel)
2010 Femme fatale, (novel)
2011 Kruhová leč (stories)
2012 Dobrou noc, sladké sny (novel)
2013 Alfa Centauri (novel)
2014 Bleší trh, (essays
2015 Lůžko je rozestlané. Nové brněnsk(stories)
2017 Jízlivá potměšilost žití (novel)
2018 riBakšiš
2018 Je suis Paris (novel)
2019 Liška v dámu
2022 Škrtiči bohyně Kálí (stories)
2023 Co si mamlasové povídali (novel storiesl)