Background
SKVORECKY, Josef was born on September 29, 1924 in Nachod.
SKVORECKY, Josef was born on September 29, 1924 in Nachod.
Charles University, Prague. World Literature (journal).
Writer and translator. Worked as teacher, Secondary Social School. Chairman Editorial Board of journal The Flame -1968.
Emigrated to Canada 1968.
Company-founder of Sixty-Eight Publishers, Toronto (with Zdena Skvorecky) who, up to 1990 published 216 titles by authors banned in Czechoslovakia). Professor of English and American Literature, Toronto University since 1969.
Of Board of Consultants to President Havel February since 1990.
Married Zdena Salivarova.