Name Pavel Kohout Role Novelist | Spouse Jelena Kohout (m. 1965) Children Tereza Bouckova | |
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Movies Saint Clara, Skid, That Kind of Love Grandchildren Marian Boucek, Vinck Boucek, Dominik Boucek Books The widow killer, Hodina tance a lásky, I Am Snowing, The hangwoman, Katyné Similar People Tereza Bouckova, Jan Neruda, Alena Vranova, Edmond Rostand, Jiri Dienstbier | ||
M s c autorsk ho ten 2013 pavel kohout z znam ten
Pavel Kohout (born July 20, 1928 in Prague) is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring exponent and dissident in the 1970s until he was expelled to Austria. He was a founding member of the Charter 77 movement.
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Because he and other dissident theater workers had been banned from working in the official theater, he formed the company Living-Room Theater with the actors Pavel Landovský, Vlasta Chramostová, Vlastimil Třešňák, and his daughter, Tereza Boučková to covertly perform an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth in living rooms in Prague. Czech-born UK playwright Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth is inspired by these events.
His most notable play is the drama Poor Murderer, which opened on Broadway in Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1976. It is based on the short story "Thought" by Leonid Andreyev.
His novels include White Book (an absurdist picture of life under Communism), I Am Snowing (a post-Communism story about the opening of the Communist-era secret police informer files, the effect of that opening on the informers and their victims, and thus about the corrosive effect of the Communist regime), The Widow Killer (a detective story set in World War II Nazi-occupied Prague), and The Hangwoman (a black-humor story about executioners).