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Patrik Ouředník

 
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(*1957)

 
 
A Czech linguist, poet and translator from French (among other things, he has translated Beckett, Vian, Queneau, Jarry, and Rabelais) who currently lives in Paris.

He is the author of the poetry collections Anebo (Or, 1992) and Neřkuli (If I Don’t Say, 1996), and the original linguistic works Šmírbuch jazyka českého (The Smirbuch of the Czech Language: A Dictionary of Unconventional Czech, 1992) and Aniž jest co nového pod sluncem (And There Is Nothing New Under the Sun, 1994), as well as the experimental prose work Rok čtyřiadvacet (Year Twenty-Four, 1995) and the extraordinary book Europeana (2001).

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