Author

Josef Škvorecký

9 books · 4 series

Josef Škvorecký was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher who spent half his life in Canada. His novels The Cowards, banned in Czechoslovakia, and The Engineer of Human Souls, which won the Canadian Governor General's Award, sit alongside the Danny Smiricky novels and the Lieutenant Boruvka detective stories set in Prague. He received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. With his wife, he founded 68 Publishers in 1971, which published banned Czech books by dissident writers.

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All books

9 books

1969

  1. Miss Silver's Past

    Standalone

  2. The Engineer of Human Souls

    Danny Smiricky Series

1970

  1. The Cowards

    Zebra books

1972

  1. The Miracle Game

    Danny Smiricky Series · Book 3

1989

  1. The Swell Season

    Danny Smiřický Cycle

  2. Dvorak in Love

    International library

1993

  1. The Republic of Whores

    Standalone

1999

  1. Two Murders in My Double Life

    Standalone

2013

  1. THE BASS SAXOPHONE

    Standalone