peoplepill id: tomas-zmeskal
Czech writer
Tomáš Zmeškal
The basics
Quick Facts
Intro
Czech writer
From
Work field
Gender
Male
Birth
1 January 1966, Prague, Duchy of Bohemia
Age
58 years
Residence
Prague
The details (from wikipedia)
Biography
Tomáš Zmeškal (born 1966) is a Czech writer. He was born in Prague to a Congolese father and a Czech mother. In 1987, he left the then-Czechoslovakia to live in London, where he studied English language and literature at King's College. He returned after the collapse of communism. He taught at Charles University for a while, and currently teaches in high school.
Zmeškal was lauded for his debut novel Milostný dopis klínovým písmem (Love Letter in Cuneiform Script), published in 2008. The book won the EU Prize for Literature and the Josef Škvorecký Prize. He has published two other books since.
In the 1980s, he was a member of the band Psí vojáci, led by Filip Topol. Zmeškal now lives in Prague.
Works
- Milostný dopis klínovým písmem, Torst 2008, Praha, ISBN 978-80-7215-349-7
- Životopis černobílého jehněte, Torst 2009, ISBN 978-80-7215-372-5
- Sokrates na rovníku, Mishkezy 2013, ISBN 978-80-87886-00-7
The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia
article.
The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Tomáš Zmeškal is in following lists
By field of work
By work and/or country
Famous Czech Editors
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
Famous Czech Educators
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
Famous Czech Writers
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
Famous Czech Translators
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
Famous Czech Anglicists
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
Famous Czech Literary editors
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
Famous Czech Docents
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
comments so far.
Comments
Tomáš Zmeškal