Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:10:06 +0200https://english.radio.cz/author-jan-novak-hrabal-skvorecky-and-scandalizing-chicago-czech-community-8587282© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalJan Novák left Kolín in Communist Czechoslovakia a teenager in 1969. He emigrated with his parents to Chicago, where he studied and started to chronicle Czech life in the Windy City. In more recent years he has written screenplays for Miloš Forman, and a prize-winning fictional biography of fellow Czech-Americans, Josef and Ctirad Mašín. He is settled back in Prague for the medium-term teaching at the city’s film school, FAMU. When I met him in a café by the banks of the Vltava recently, I started by asking him about his first spell in this country, and life in 1960s small-town Czechoslovakia:encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 https://english.radio.cz/author-jan-novak-hrabal-skvorecky-and-scandalizing-chicago-czech-community-8587282 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9