Radek John (; born 6 December 1954) is a

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journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

, writer,

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and

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who served as the

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from 2010 to 2011 and as Leader of the Public Affairs party from 2009 to 2013. His novel '' Memento'' is the first book examining the drug problem in the context of the former

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a ...

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. The novel was translated into ten languages. From 13 July 2010 to 21 April 2011 he served as the Minister of Interior of the

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Early life

To 1979 he studied

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and graduated from the

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 ( cs, Filmová a televizní fakulta Akademie múzických umění v Praze) or FAMU is a film school in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1946 as one of three branches of the Acade ...

(FAMU). From 1980 till 1993 he worked as an editor of Mladý Svět magazine. He then worked as a screenwriter at

Barrandov Film Studios Barrandov Studios is a set of film studios in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the largest film studio in the country and one of the largest in Europe. Several major Hollywood productions have been made here, including '' Mission Impossible'', '' ...

References

Living people 1954 births Czech male writers Czech journalists Public Affairs (political party) politicians Interior ministers of the Czech Republic Writers from Prague Politicians from Prague Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic (2010–2013) {{Czech-writer-stub