Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and studied law. By his death, he was ranked among the greatest Czech writers of the twentieth century. His novel Closely Watched Trains was turned into an Academy Award-winning film. David Short is a retired teacher of Czech and Slovak, the author of a popular Czech textbook, the coauthor of a number of publications in the field of linguistics, and a prolific translator from Czech. For his work with Czech literature he was awarded the Jir Theiner Prize.
"Our very best writer today."--Milan Kundera, author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" "Guardian " "Hrabal's peculiar strength is his ability to entertain the simplest reader and yet be admired by the most intellectual of intellectuals."--Josef Skvoreck , author of "The Engineer of Human Souls" "Arguably the best prose stylist of the twentieth century."--Words Without Borders "One of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover of gossip, beer, cats and women (in roughly that order). . . . In Hrabal's work beauty, pity, sorrow and high silliness come tightly braided."--Parul Sehgal "New York Times Book Review " "A great writer."--James Wood "London Review of Books "
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