Name Tomas Zmeskal | Role Writer | |
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Books Milostny dopis klinovym pismem, Zivotopis cernobileho jehnete Awards European Union Prize for Literature |
Mesic autorskeho cteni 2014 tomas zmeskal zaznam cteni
Tomáš Zmeškal (born 1966) is a Czech writer. He was born in Prague to a Congolese father and a Czech mother. In 1987, he left the then-Czechoslovakia to live in London, where he studied English language and literature at King's College. He returned after the collapse of communism. He taught at Charles University for a while, and currently teaches in high school.
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- Mesic autorskeho cteni 2014 tomas zmeskal zaznam cteni
- Interview z1 host tomas zmeskal 14 12 2009
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Zmeškal was lauded for his debut novel Milostný dopis klínovým písmem (Love Letter in Cuneiform Script), published in 2008. The book won the EU Prize for Literature and the Josef Škvorecký Prize. He has published two other books since.

In the 1980s, he was a member of the band Psí vojáci, led by Filip Topol. Zmeškal now lives in Prague.
Interview z1 host tomas zmeskal 14 12 2009
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