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1. Let us start in seventeenth century. This Moravian philosopher, educationalist, theologian, and writer died in Amsterdam after decades of exile. He left behind many poems, books, and especially didactical works such as "Didactica Magna" or "Obis Pictus". We call him the teacher of nations and he has a grave and museum in the city of Naarden, Netherlands.
2. The most well known Czech writer wrote in German. He was born at the end of the nineteenth century to a Prague Jewish family. None of his stories were published during his lifetime, and he asked in his will that the executor destroy all his unpublished work. This is why he is not a Nobel Prize awarded writer: only living writers can be awarded. His friend, Max Brod, published the majority of the work, including "Das Schloss (Castle)" and "Der Prozess".
3. This writer and journalist helped a new word to be born. The word 'robot' was used for the first time in his theatrical play "R.U.R." What is the author's name?
4. This alcohol lover was a Czech humorist and satirist, editor of an anarchist's journal, member of the Bolshevik party in Russia and technically a bigamist. This all is description of a man who is famous because of his book about a dunce who survived the war because of being a dunce.
5. Frederika Victoria Gessner was born in Silesian Opava as a granddaughter of the writer and entrepeneur Karel Weisshunh. She moved to Vienna at the age of 12 and later to Africa. Africa was her love and destiny and she spent here the rest of her life. She studied and painted African animals and became famous with a book about her lioness. There is a foundation called after the lioness. Frederika was murdered by her adolescent employee at the age of 70. Under which name do you know her?
6. For this man, destiny wrote a role like one from a play. He was born into a family of successful businessmen, and owned real estate including the Barrandov studios. However, the Communist era cast him into dissent forcing him to spend the Communist time as a flyman and as an at-home-unpublished playwright. After the time of red darkness, a Velvet Revolution came and catapulted this person into Prague castle as the president for 13 years. What is his name?
7. Czechs waited a long time for the first Nobel Prize winning writer. The first Czech received the award in 1984 at the age of 83. This writer had started as a Communist journalist as did many other writers of his generation. However, his way grew apart from the official party quite soon, in 1929 (the year when the Communist Party turned in the direction of Soviet Bolsheviks). He is among the signatories of Charta 77 - group of people in opposition to the regime. Do you know his name?
8. This writer is Czech, but he left Patria in 1975 because of the regime to live in Paris. Older books were originally in Czech, like "The Joke", his first book that posted him to the blacklist. Newer books were written in French, but the author reserved the rights to Czech translation just for himself. The only 20th century movie adaptation of his work was not successful (an adaptation of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being") and author has rejected any other try. Do you know his name?
9. Sometimes life is the best author. This author has many keynotes from his own life. He was born in Prague in 1926. The Nazis sent him to Terezin, Auschwitz and finally to Buchenwald concentration camp at the ages from 16-19, just because of his Jewish ancestry. He survived all of them, but the suffering he experienced orientated his work. He escaped Czechoslovakia in 1968, first to Yugoslavia and later to the USA where he lived and taught at an American University. He split his time between Prague and the USA after 1990 and moved back to Prague when he retired in 2003. His novel, "Lovely Green Eyes", was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. He wrote other famous books; "A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova" and "Dita Saxova" are among them.
10. This person is not primarily a writer; she is a former politician. She was born in Prague as Marie Jana Korbelová to the family of a Czech diplomat. She has written her memoirs of her political career, which achieved unexpected success. Marie Jana served as the first woman in her position, but she served under a different name. Do you know her name?
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