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Karel Nový (writer)
Karel Novák (8 December 1890 – 23 November 1980), known professionally as Karel Nový, was a Czech writer and journalist. Biography Karel Novák was born into the family of a poor baker. He published under the name Karel Nový and later adopted this name as his own. He studied at the grammar school in Benešov and his classmate in the third and fourth years was Vladislav Vančura with whom he became close friends. Nový did not finish high school and, after several short-term jobs, began to study journalism. As a journalist, he worked with Left-wing politics, left-wing intelligentsia. During World War II, he was arrested in 1944 by the Nazi occupiers and interned in the Klecina labor camp (Klettendorf) in Silesia near Wrocław. After the liberation, he worked gradually in several newsrooms, from 1952 to 1956 he was the editor-in-chief of the State Children's Book Publishing House. From 1956 he worked as a professional writer. In 1960 he was appointed National Artist. Karel ...
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