biography
pronunciation:
[kish]
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| male
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| (1885–1948)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Prague, Czech Republic. A German-speaking Czech journalist and novelist, he was a reporter in Berlin before being deported in 1933. He took part in the Spanish Civil War and spent World War 2 in Mexico. His accounts of these experiences elevated the status of journalism to that of a new literary genre. They include Der rasende Reporter (1925), Zaren, Popen, Bolschewiken (1927), and Entdeckungen im Mexico (1945). |
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