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Selected
Other Translations by Paul Wilson
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information:
Dark
Blue Sky - the motion picture, written and directed by
Academy Award Winning, Jan and Zdenek Sverak ( Kolya), for
Portabello Films. ( 1999)
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here
for Dark Blue Sky web site with trailer
- And
a review
of the DVD
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Prague:
A Traveller's Literary Companion. Edited by Paul Wilson.
Whereabouts Press, San Francisco. (1995)
 Published
in 1995, this book is a guide to the spirit of Prague, filled
with the stories by Prague writers. While some of these are
classic tales by well-known authors, more than half are by
relatively unknown writers, translated into English for the
first time. For more about this book, visit the site of Whereabouts
Press
Prague:
A Traveler's Literary Companion at Amazon.com
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We
Are Children Just The Same. Vedem, The Secret Magazine of
the Boys of Terezin. Editor and associate translator.
The Jewish Publication Society. Philadelphia. (1995) Winner
of the National Jewish Book Award.
We
Are Children Just the Same: Vedem, The Secret Magazine of
the Boys of Terezin
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I
Served the King of England, Bohumil Hrabal. Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, New York. (1989)
 Described
by Milan Kundera as "one of the most authentic incarnations
of magical Prague, an incredible union of earthy humour and
baroque imagination', I Served the King of England
is the masterpiece of Czechoslovakia's finest writer. Set
in Prague and the lush, wooded landscapes of Bohemia, it tells
the story of a tiny, sharp-witted waiter with an eye for the
main chance and a way with the ladies who learns his trade
in pre-war Prague, marries a blond Aryan beauty as the Germans
invade, makes and loses a fortune and achieves a kind of pastoral
serenity among the ruins of post-war Europe. Witty, worldly
and sardonic, it is a novel of irresistible energy and disrespectful
humour.
I
Served the King of England
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Nightfrost
in Prague, Zdenek Mlynar. Karz Publishers, New York (1980)
 August
20, 1968: In the dead of night, the tanks and troops of the
Warsaw Pact countries, led by the Soviet Union, rolled into
Czechoslovakia. By morning, Premier Alexander Dubcek, who
had instituted some liberal policies and incurred the wrath
of the Soviets, was whisked away to a Soviet prison. Later,
other Czech leaders were flown to Moscow for meetings. On
their return to Prague, they found an increasing number of
Soviet apologists bearing down on them. By the spring of 1969,
Dubcek and his courageous lieutenants had to capitulate almost
totally to soviet pressure and make way for a Kremlin-installed
puppet government. The inside story of those incredible days
is revealed in a book by Zdenek Mlynark one of the secretaries
of [the Central Committee of] the Czechoslovak party."
Toronto Star 20 August 1979.
Zdenek
Mlynar is the highest-ranking Communist since Trotsky to come
to the West. A committed Stalinist in the early post-World
War II years and cultivated by the party as a future leader,
Zdenek Mlynar became one of the leading intellectual forces
behind reform in the Czechoslovak Communist party and an author
of the party's reform manifesto, the Action Program. Following
the Soviet invasion in August 1968, Mlynar personally participated
in the negotiations with the Soviet Politburo concerning the
withdrawal of Soviet troops.
Nightfrost
in Prague is his memoir of the dramatic postwar changes
in Czechoslovakia and the emergence and eventual collapse
of reform. The mechanism of politics and power in a soviet
bloc country and the intricate political ties with the USSR
are here graphically depicted. Mlynar left Czechoslovakia
in 1977 and presently resides in Vienna.
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