Karel Čapek
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Karel Čapek was a famous Czech writer born in 1890. He is best known for coining the word "robot" in his play R.U.R. Čapek wrote plays, novels, detective stories and more that were often anti-fascist or anti-war. Some of his most famous works include R.U.R., The Makropulos Affair, and Letters from England. Čapek refused to flee Czechoslovakia when the Nazis rose to power and died of pneumonia in 1938 at the age of 48.
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- 2. Karel Čapek • Karel Čapek was born in 1890 in village Malé Svatoňovice. • Karel Čapek is one of the most famos science fiction author in the Czech Republic.
- 3. Life • When he was 6 months old his family moved to their own house in Úpice. • Karel was the youngest. He had a brother Josef, who was a painter. And sister Helena, pianist. Later she became a writer and published memoirs about Karel and Josef. • He moved to Brno with his sister to finish high school there, but after two years he moved to Prague where he finished a high school at the Academic Grammar School in 1909. • After the high school he studied philosophy and aesthetics at the Charles University, but he also spent some time at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and Sorbonne in Paris. • After completing his studies, he worked as an educator in an aristocratic family but soon he joined the journalism.(Národní dopisy, Nebojsa, Lidové noviny) • He didn´t have to fight in the First World War because of his illness, but he was greatly influenced by the war.
- 4. Work • In his play R.U.R. word robot was first used. • Čapek wrote with intelligence and humor. • His most productive years were during Czechoslovakia. • From 1930s´ Čapek's work became anti-fascist and anti-militarist. • He mainly wrote books and plays that include detective stories, novels, fairy tales and theatre plays. • Some of his works - The Makropulos Affair,Krakatit, Dashenka, Letters from England. • In 1989 film People against destruction was put into cinemas. • He was nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times.
- 5. Later life • In 1935 Karel Čapek married Olga Scheinpflugová. • "Čapek refused to leave his country despite the fact that the Nazi Gestapo had named him public enemy number two. "(source:en.wikipedia.org) • While repairing flood damage to a summer house, he caught a cold.He was suffering all his life from spondyloarthritis and was also a heavy smoker, so Čapek died of pneumonia, on 25th December 1938. • Nazi agents came to Prague to arrest him, but when they found out he was already dead, they arrested his wife Olga. • Karel and Olga are buried at the Vyšehrad cemetery.
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