Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:11:58 +0200https://english.radio.cz/karel-capek-novelist-playwright-and-travel-writer-8108756© 2026 Radio Prague International Karel Čapek was a leading Czech interwar novelist, playwright and journalist and is perhaps most remembered for works of science fiction such as The War with the Newts and R.U.R., which gave the world the word “robot”. But did you know that Čapek was also a travel writer? His pieces from around Europe are the focus of the book In Search of a Shared Expression by Mirna Solic, a lecturer at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow. I spoke to her on the phone from Scotland. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/capek_karel1_1.jpg?timestamp=1590351166 https://english.radio.cz/karel-capek-novelist-playwright-and-travel-writer-8108756 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9