Jaroslav Velinský (December 18, 1932 – February 19, 2012)
- accessed February 20, 2012 was a
Czech
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science fiction
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and detective writer, publisher,
songwriter
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and musician. In the folk arena and among sci-fi friends and fans he was known as Kapitán Kid (other pseudonyms included: Václav Rabský, C.P. Stonebridge and Agáta BÃlá).
Life and career
Velinský was born in
Prague
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,
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, in 1932.
A player of both banjo and swing guitar, he wrote more than 50 country and folk songs, including "Jenofefa", "Krinolina" and "Mary Celeste", and was one of the founders of the Czech
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festival, Porta.
His science-fiction books included ''Engerlings'', ''Notes from Garth'', ''Dzwille'', and ''Continent of Unlimited Possibilities''. He was an honorary member of the
Ertar-Czech Relations Society, a science-fiction club. He wrote eight staged theater plays and more than 30 detective novels based around a detective named Ota Fink, including ''Dark Well'', ''Man-eater'', ''Death of a Midget'', ''Lady with a Green Elephant'', ''Very Long Stairs'', ''Murderer's Road'', ''Estimated Solution'' and others.
Velinský founded a one-man publishing house, the Club of Friends of Captain Kid, the club referring to readers of his books and fans of his music. He used the club's data and close contact with his audience to better plan his production. This concerned not just published books and CDs, but deciding between writing music or literature and also selecting themes. The result was a publishing house producing new original books and songs "on demand".
He was also a miner, metalsmith, and graphic artist.
Velinský died of
lung cancer
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in
Ústà nad Labem
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...
in February 2012, aged 79.
References
External links
Kkkk.cz
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20th-century Czech writers
Czech science fiction writers
Writers from Prague
1932 births
2012 deaths
20th-century Czech male writers