KOHOUT, Pavel

(1928-)

   Czech poet, playwright, novelist and, since his emigration in 1968, emigre activist. Though his early poetry had been pro-communist, his politics changed and his work remained unpublished in Czechoslovakia in the period 1968-89; some was published there in 1990. His sf novel, which deals with the political persecution of a man who can control ANTIGRAVITY, is Bila kniha o kauze Adam Juracek, profesor telocviku a kresleni na Pedagogicke skole v K., kontra Sir Isaac Newton, profesor fyziky nauniverzite v Cambridge (written 1970 and circulated in samizdat form; 1978 Canada; trans Alec Page as White Book: Adam Juracek, Professor of Drawingand Physical Education at the Pedagogical Institute in K., vs. Sir Isaac Newton, Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge 1977 US).

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   See also: CZECH AND SLOVAK SF; THEATRE.