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Jan Novák (writer)
Jan Novák (born April 4, 1953, in Kolín) is a Czech-American writer, screenwriter and playwright. He writes in both Czech language, Czech and English language, English, occasionally translating his work. He has received awards in both the United States and the Czech Republic. He has worked closely with such figures as Václav Havel and Miloš Forman. Early life and education His family fled Czechoslovakia in 1969, after his father was discovered to have committed embezzlement. They escaped to a refugee camp in Austria, where after corresponding with members of the large Czech-American community in Chicago, they were able to emigrate to Cicero, Illinois. After high school, he initially attended Shimer College, a small Great Books college then located in Mount Carroll, Illinois, Mount Carroll. He subsequently attended and graduated from the University of Chicago, receiving bachelor's and master's degrees. In 2008, he returned to his native Czech Republic and has been writing in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Novak Vladimira Papirnik US Embassy 2009
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Number, a barcode standard compatible with EAN * Japanese Accepted Name, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * ''Joint Army-Navy'', US standards for electronic color codes, etc. * ''Journal of Advanced Nursing'' Personal name * Jan (name), male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' * Jan (Persian name), Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name * Ran (surname), romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles * Ján, Slovak name Other uses * January, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar * Jan (cards), a term in some card games when a player loses without taking any tricks or scoring a minim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czenglish
Czenglish, a portmanteau of the words Czech and English, refers to the interlanguage of English heavily influenced by Czech pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar or syntax spoken by learners of English as a second language. The term ''Czenglish'' is first recorded in 1989, with the slightly earlier variant ''Czechlish'' recorded from 1982.Lambert, James. 2018. A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity. ''English World-wide'', 39(1): 23. DOI: 10.1075/eww.38.3.04lam Characteristics Examples include confusing verbatim translations (such as "basic school" for ', which should be "primary school" or "elementary school"), incorrect word order in a sentence and use of inappropriate prepositions and conjunctions because of the influence of their Czech equivalents. Another typical aspect is the absence of definite articles (due to the lack of articles in Czech) and the use of "some" in place of an indefinite article. In Czenglish and other Central European accents is oft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bratislava
Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, some sources estimate daily number of people moving around the city based on mobile phone SIM cards is more than 570,000. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia at the foot of the Little Carpathians, occupying both banks of the Danube and the left bank of the Morava (river), River Morava. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital to border two sovereign states. The city's history has been influenced by people of many nations and religions, including Austrians, Bulgarians, Croats, Czechs, Germans, Hungarian people, Hungarians, Jews and Slovaks. It was the coronation site and legislative center and capital of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1536 to 1783; elev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brno
Brno ( , ; ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 403,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic after the capital, Prague, and one of the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 100 largest cities of the European Union. The Brno metropolitan area has approximately 730,000 inhabitants. Brno is the former capital city of Moravia and the political and cultural hub of the South Moravian Region. It is the centre of the Judiciary of the Czech Republic, Czech judiciary, with the seats of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Court, the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Administrative Court, and the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, and a number of state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodman Theater
Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago, Illinois, Chicago's Chicago Loop, Loop. A major part of the Theater in Chicago, Chicago theatre scene, it is the city's oldest currently active nonprofit theater organization. Part of its present theater complex occupies the landmark Harris and Selwyn Theaters property. History The Goodman was founded in 1925 as a tribute to the Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, who died in the Great Influenza Pandemic in 1918. The theater was funded by Goodman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William O. Goodman, who donated $250,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago to establish a professional repertory theatre, repertory company and a school of drama at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The first theater was designed by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw (in the location now occupied by the museum's Modern Wing), although its design was severely hampered by location restrictions resulting in poor acoustics and lack of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film And TV School Of The Academy Of Performing Arts In Prague
The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague () or FAMU is a film school in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1946 as one of three branches of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. It is the fifth oldest film school in the world. The teaching language on most courses at FAMU is Czech, but FAMU also runs certain courses in English. The school has repeatedly been included on lists of the best film schools in the world by ''The Hollywood Reporter''. In the 1960s and 1970s, several young directors from Yugoslavia were FAMU students ( Rajko Grlić, Srđan Karanović, Emir Kusturica, Goran Marković, Goran Paskaljević and Lordan Zafranović). All of these directors would become very successful in the following decades, prompting the coinage of the term '' Praška filmska škola'' ("Prague film school"), or ''Praški talas'' ("Prague wave"), which is sometimes considered a prominent subgenre of the Yugoslav cinema. History The school was established betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Ambiguous Report About The End Of The World
''An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World'' () is a 1997 Czech film directed by Juraj Jakubisko. It is a symbolic story of ill-fated love set in central Europe. Synopsis A magical and realistic vision of an unbalanced world takes place in a village in the mountains at the end of the world - at an unknown time. The village in a picturesque setting is a metaphor for the world and humanity at the rise of the 3rd millennium. During the 25 years when the story takes place, we can see change over several generations and various symbols of different civilizations, church and culture. The main motif of the film is the love between Verona and Goran. Their passionate relationship is so different from any other and so they have to be punished in the name of so-called morality and equality. By following them, the village people are trying to hide their transgressions against nature and themselves. Patriarchal rituals are in conflict with a civilization without God and equality. Nature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Báječná Léta Pod Psa
''Báječná léta pod psa'' (English: ''Those Wonderful Years That Sucked'') is a 1997 Czech comedy drama film adapted from the book of the same title by Michal Viewegh. Directed by Petr Nikolaev and starring Libuše Šafránková, Ondřej Vetchý and Jakub Wehrenberg, the film portrays a young family struggling through the twenty years of the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Plot In the early 1960s Prague, Kvido is born prematurely during a ''Waiting for Godot'' performance, as if heralding his future intellectual inclinations and fondness of literature. When armies of the Warsaw Pact invade Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the Soviet occupation begins, Kvido relocates with his parents Aleš and Milena to the countryside. Aleš, a talented economist, finds a job at a local glassworks company thanks to his college friend Žvára, but struggles with adjusting to the communist regime. Politically inactive and unsupportive of the Party, he is held in check by his superior Šp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Novak (1953) KVIFF
Jan Novak may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Jan Novák (composer) (1921–1984), Czech composer of classical music * Jan Novák (writer) Jan Novák (born April 4, 1953, in Kolín) is a Czech-American writer, screenwriter and playwright. He writes in both Czech language, Czech and English language, English, occasionally translating his work. He has received awards in both the Unite ... (born 1953), Czech writer and playwright Sports * Ján Novák (footballer) (born 1985), Slovak association football striker * Jan Novák (footballer, born 1896) (1896–1968), Czech footballer * Jan Novak (footballer, born 1997), Slovenian footballer * Jan Novák (handballer) (born 1960), Czech handball player * Jan Novák (ice hockey) (born 1979), Czech professional ice hockey player Other uses * Jan Novak, a placeholder name in the Czech language, similar to John Doe in English See also * {{human name disambiguation, name=Novak, Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonín Kratochvíl
Antonín Kratochvíl (also written Antonin Kratochvil; born 12 April 1947) is a Czech-born American photojournalist. He is a founding member of VII Photo Agency. Life and work Kratochvíl was born in 1947 in Lovosice, Czechoslovakia. He gained a BFA in Photography from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. He has photographed Mongolia's street children for the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History and the Iraq War for ''Fortune''. He was suspended from VII Photo Agency in 2017 after sexual harassment allegations were made. He denied that they ever happened. Sarah K. Stanley, in an essay on Kratochvíl's book ''Vanishing'', called it "a unique compilation of images by a photographer who is distinguished by his great sensitivity to the plight of humans beings and animal species seeking survival in endangered habitats." Publications Publications by Kratochvíl *''Broken Dream: 20 Years of War in Eastern Europe.'' New York: Monacelli, 1997. . *''Incognito.'' Santa F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominik Hašek
Dominik Hašek (, ; born 29 January 1965) is a Czech former ice hockey goaltender who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL), mostly for the Buffalo Sabres. Widely regarded as one of the best goaltenders in history, Hašek also played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, and Ottawa Senators in his NHL career before finishing his career in Europe. While in Buffalo, he became one of the league's finest goaltenders, earning him the nickname "The Dominator". His strong play has been credited with establishing European goaltenders in a league previously dominated by North Americans. He is a two-time Stanley Cup champion as a member of the Red Wings, winning his first one as the starting goaltender and his second one as the backup. Hašek was one of the league's most successful goaltenders of the 1990s and early 2000s. From 1993 to 2001, he won six Vezina Trophies, the most under the award's current system of voting for the best individual goaltender. In 1998 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnesia Litera
Magnesia Litera is an annual literary award, book award held in the Czech Republic since 2002. The prize covers all literary genres in eight genre categories: prose, poetry, children's literature, children's book (since 2004), non-fiction, essay/journalism (since 2007), translation, publishing achievement, book debut, and the main prize – one of the genre nominee is named the "Czech Book of the Year". The prize is awarded by an independent association Litera which associates members of all Czech literary or book-market organizations: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Association of Booksellers and Publishers, Czech Centre of International PEN, Czech section of International Board on Books for Young People, IBBY, Society of Czech Writers, Czech Translators' Guild. Books of the Year * 2024 – : ''Hella'' * 2023 – Miloš_Doležal: ''Jana bude brzy sbírat lipový květ'' * 2022 – : ''Gott: Československý příběh'' (''Karel Gott, Gott: Czechoslovak Story'') (non-fic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
