biography
pronunciation:
[hashek]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1923)
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| biography:
| Novelist and short-story writer, born in Prague, Czech Republic. An accomplished practical joker who despised pomposity, he is best known for his novel The Good Soldier Švejk (1921–3), a satire on military life and bureaucracy, four volumes of which were completed by his death. |
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