Pavel Hak
Czech
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| Intro | Czech | |
| Places | France | |
| is | Writer Playwright | |
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature | |
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| Birth | Tábor |
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Pavel Hak (born 1962, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-born French playwright and author. Exiled to France in 1986, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He has published six books, Safari, Sniper, Lutte à mort, Trans (Trans won the Prix Wepler in 2006), Warax and Vomito negro though the second is the only one published in English translation. Sniper (2005) is a graphic account of genocide and torture in an unnamed country. It met with largely positive reviews on publication in the UK and the USA.