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Stoppard, Gruša and Stránský in Prague

Photograph of members of the Czech Centre in Prague in 2005. From left to right are: Tom Stoppard; Jiří Gruša, president of PEN International (2003-09); and Jiří Stránský, president...

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Date:01/01/2005
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Kurdish Centre members in Prague

Photograph of PEN members at a meeting that was hosted by the Czech Centre and took place at Restaurant Na Vlachovce in Prague on 27-29 April 2006. Zerdeşt Haco,...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:29/04/2006
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Zerdeşt Haco in Prague

Photograph of Zerdeşt Haco, president (1999-2013) and honorary president (2016-) of the Kurdish Centre, standing and addressing the room from behind a table. This photograph was taken at a...

PEN centre:Kurdish Centre  (Navenda PENa Kurd)
Date:29/04/2006
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Henri Membré at the 13th Congress

Folder of documents regarding the attendance of Henri Membré, former secretary of the French Centre, at the 16th PEN International Congress in Prague, Czech Republic, 1938, ff. 3. This...

PEN centre:French Centre  (PEN Club français)
Date:01/01/1938
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Reception for Georges Duhamel

Photograph of a reception held in honour of Georges Duhamel, member of the French Centre, who can be seen sitting on the left and looking at the camera. This...

PEN centre:Czech Centre  (České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu)
Date:01/02/1923
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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Photograph of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (1918-35), who was appointed an honorary member of PEN International in the 1920s. Masaryk met with Catharine Amy Dawson Scott,...

PEN centre:Czech Centre  (České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu)
Date:[1926]
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Philip Roth and Günter Grass receive Karel Čapek Awards

Photograph of a ceremony held in Prague in 1994 at which Philip Roth and Günter Grass were awarded the inaugural Karel Čapek Award for outstanding literary achievement. This award...

PEN centre:Czech Centre  (České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu)
Date:01/01/1994
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Founders of the Czech Centre

Extract from Křivánek, Vladimír. Conscience of the Word: the story of Czech P.E.N. Prague: České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu, 2018. This page from Křivánek's book on the history of...

PEN centre:Czech Centre  (České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu)
Date:15/02/1925
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Premiere of Karlevich Marko

Photograph of PEN members at a reception held for the Yugoslavian playwright Djuro Dimkovich when he and his wife visited Prague to watch the premiere of Dimkovich's play Kralevich...

PEN centre:Czech Centre  (České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu)
Date:02/12/1930
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Thomas Mann and Oskar Frenkel

Photograph of the Nobel laureate and German Centre member Thomas Mann, on the left, with Oskar Frankl, on the right, director of Urania, a German adult-education society in Prague,...

PEN centre:Czech Centre  (České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu)
Date:15/03/1932
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Conscience of the Word book

Dust cover of Křivánek, Vladimír. Conscience of the Word. The story of Czech P.E.N. Prague: Czech Centre of International P.E.N, 2018. This book recounts the Czech Centre's history from...

PEN centre:Czech Centre  (České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu)
Date:01/01/2018
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Alois Jirásek

Photograph of the Czech writer Alois Jirásek, member of the English Centre and later of the Czech Centre, who became an honorary member of PEN International in 1923. The...

PEN centre:Czech Centre  (České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu)
Date:[1923]
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Debate at Prague Congress

Photograph of PEN members at a panel debate titled Where Tolerance Ends And Indifference Begins, which was held on 12 November 1994 in Prague. This debate was led by...

PEN centre:Czech Centre  (České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu)
Date:12/11/1994
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Czech Centre Board Caricature

Cartoon by the Czech artist Adolf Hoffmeister, chairman of the Czech Centre (1963-70), depicting a meeting between members of the Czech Centre's first Board. From left to right, with...

PEN centre:Czech Centre  (České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu)
Date:15/02/1925
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Jiří Stránský

Photograph of Jiří Stránský, poet, playwright, filmmaker, and president of the Czech Centre (1992-2006). Stránský was made a political prisoner under the Communist regime in both 1953 and 1974....

PEN centre:Czech Centre  (České Centrum Mezinárodního PEN Klubu)
Date:01/01/1991
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Cuban writers meeting Václav Havel

Photograph of Cuban delegates meeting Václav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia (1989-92) and first President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003), in Prague on 5 May 2004. From left to right...