Ulč in 2017 Ota Ulč (16 March 1930 – 22 November 2022) was a Czech-American author and columnist. Ulč studied law at the

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, then became a district court judge in

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. In 1959 he escaped via

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and finally to the U.S. There he proceeded to study

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at the

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. Afterwards, he gave classes on comparative governments at

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. His books were published by Škvorecký's

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. From 1989 to his death, Ulč published about 20 books and articles in both printed and online newspapers in the

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. As of 2006, Ulč was living in

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, in upstate New York. He died on 22 November 2022, at the age of 92.V americkém Binghamtonu zemřel plzeňský rodák, významný politolog, publicista a spisovatel Ota Ulč

Publications

* Judge in a Communist State, Ohio University Press, 1972 * Politics in Czechoslovakia, San Francisco:W.H.Freeman, 1974 * Malá doznání okresního soudce, Sixty-Eight Publishers, Toronto, 1974 * Náš člověk v Indii a na Ceyloně, Sixty-Eight Publishers, Toronto, 1976 * Antinostalgicum, Sixty-Eight Publishers, Toronto, 1977 * Bez Čedoku po Pacifiku, Sixty-Eight Publishers, Toronto, 1980 * Špatně časovaný běženec, Sixty-Eight Publishers, Toronto, 1985 * Bez Čedoku po Jižní Africe, Sixty-Eight Publishers, Toronto, 1988 * Šťastně navrácený běženec, Sixty-Eight Publishers, Toronto, 1992 * My oni, Polygon Verlag, Zurich, (1.ed.1987, 2.ed.1989) * Malá doznání okresního soudce, Art-servis, Prague, 1990 * Nástin přednášek mezinárodního práva, Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc, 1991 * Příručka pro zájemce o americký svět, Rozmluvy, Prague, 1992 * Bez Čedoku po Číně a okolí, Ivo Železný, Prague, 1992 * Bez Čedoku po Jižní Africe, Ivo Železný, Prague, 1992 * Naši mezi protinožci, Faun, Prague, 1998 * Běženec v sametu, Faun, Prague, 1998 * Vandrování po Pacifiku Oceánii, Olympia, Prague, 1998 * Všehochuť málo korektní Doplněk, Brno 2002 * Kam šlápne česká noha, Šulc, Prague, 2003, * Pacifik: ostrovní komunikace a lidožroutská tradice, Šulc, Prague, 2004 * Čech částečným Číňanem, Academia, Prague, 2004 * Klokánie obtížné sousedství: piráti, lovci lebek, novodobí teroristé, Šulc, Prague, 2006

References

External links

Ota Ulc: from morose nihilism to a New York professorship
(in English)
Ulč's website
(in Czech) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ulc, Ota 1930 births 2022 deaths Czech male writers Czechoslovak judges Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States Charles University alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Binghamton University faculty Writers from Plzeň