{"id":288666,"date":"2012-01-04T17:26:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2012\/01\/04\/josef-skvorecky-dies-at-87\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:11:47","slug":"josef-skvorecky-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2012\/01\/04\/josef-skvorecky-dies-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Josef Skvorecky Dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only Skvorecky book I ever read in full is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dalkeyarchive.com\/book\/?GCOI=15647100598450\"><em>The Engineer of Human Souls<\/em>,<\/a> which is a long, wonderful, fun book, that Dalkey Archive recently reissued in a new snazzy cover. <\/p>\n<p>As a writer, Skvorecky was a huge figure in Czech literature, but he was also well known for establishing &#8217;68 Publishers in Toronto, where he made available more than 200 works from Czech exiles and authors whose works were banned by the communists. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to his <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/E\/EU_CZECH_OBIT_SKVORECKY?SITE=VANOV&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">AP obituary.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.banffcentre.ca\/programs\/program.aspx?id=1217&#038;utm_source=ad&#038;utm_medium=banner&#038;utm_content=Literary&#038;utm_campaign=BILTC-C\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/836.png\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only Skvorecky book I ever read in full is The Engineer of Human Souls, which is a long, wonderful, fun book, that Dalkey Archive recently reissued in a new snazzy cover. As a writer, Skvorecky was a huge figure in Czech literature, but he was also well known for establishing &#8217;68 Publishers in Toronto, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[26436,14926],"class_list":["post-288666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-josef-skvorecky","tag-obit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342026,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288666\/revisions\/342026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}