Jiří Šulc (born 1969) is a

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writer. After graduating from the Faculty of Law of

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in Prague, he worked for the

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for fifteen years. Later he worked for the

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in Brussels. He currently works at the

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in Prague. He won the ''Book Club Literary Prize'' in 2007 for his literary debut written on the

assassination of Reinhard Heydrich Reinhard Heydrich, the commander of the German Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a principal architect of the Holocaust, was assassinated during the Second World War in a coordin ...

, the novel ''Dva proti Říši'' (literally ''Two Men Against the Empire''). He wrote his first two novels in English, translating them to Czech after not finding a publisher for them.

Works

* ''Dva proti Říši'' (2007) ** published in English as

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''Hunting the Predator'' in 2016 * ''Operace Bruneval'' (2008) * ''Mosty do Tel-Avivu'' (2010) * ''Operace Stonewall'' (2011) * ''Zrádci'' (2012)

References

Living people 1969 births Czech writers 21st-century Czech male writers Charles University alumni {{CzechRepublic-writer-stub