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Josef Skvorecky

Born in 1924 in N�chod, Bohemia, Czeckoslovakia, Josef Skvorecky received a Ph.D. from Charles University in Prague. He was fired from his job when his novel The Cowards was published. Since then he has freelanced, writing novels, film scripts and non-fiction. In 1969 he emigrated to Canada with his wife, and helped her run 68 Publishers, and is now working on his "collected works" for a Prague publisher.

PUBLICATIONS:

The Bride of Texas. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1995.

Dvor�k in Love. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990.

The Engineer of Human Souls. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1984.

The Bass Saxaphone. Toronto: Anson-Cartwright, 1977.

The Cowards. New York: Grove, 1970.

AWARDS:

Echoing Green Foundation Literary Prize, for life work, 1990.

Order of the White Lion, highest Czechoslovak order for foreigners, 1990.

Governor General's Award for Fiction for The Engineer of Human Souls, 1984.

Neustadt International Prize for Literature, for life work, 1980.

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