Josef Škvorecký, Czech-Canadian author and publisher (died 2012)

Josef Škvorecký

Czech-Canadian writer and publisher (1924–2012)

Josef Škvorecký was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher. He spent half of his life in Canada, publishing and supporting banned Czech literature during the communist era. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and his wife were…