Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal was born on 28 March 1914 in Židenice, near Brno, and grew up at the brewery in Nymburk, where his stepfather was manager. A doctor of law in 1946, he was a railwayman during the war, then an insurance agent, a travelling salesman, a worker at the Kladno steelworks with the engraver Vladimír Boudník, a packer at a paper recycling centre in Prague from 1954 to 1959, and then a theatre stagehand. He published his first book at almost fifty and died in Prague on 3 February 1997.

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• NovelToo Loud a SolitudePříliš hlučná samotaBohumil Hrabal · 1976Literature