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Pavel Kohout (born 20 July 1928) is a Czech and Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, a Prague Spring participant and dissident in the 1970s until he was not allowed to return from Austria.
Oct 9, 1979 · The Czechoslovak Government's decision to strip Pavel Kohout of his citizenship and forbid his return fulfills a threat made to the playwright almost three years ago, and follows a series of ...
Official website of International Concert Organist Pavel Kohout.
The Czech concert organist Pavel Kohout gained world recognition as a brilliant organ virtuoso for his exceptional sense of music, enormous technique and natural interpretation.
Pavel Kohout was born in Prague on 20 July 1928. Having joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in 1946, he was expelled from it in 1969. In 1977, along with Vaclav Havel, later to become President of the Czechoslovak Republic, he drafted the original document of the civic movement known as Charter 77 .
Pavel Kohout is one of the most controversial figures in postwar Czech cultural and political history. A poet, author, and playwright, Kohout has been influential as a devoted Stalinist, a...
In 1977 he became a signatory and co-author of Charter 77; in 1979, when returning from an internship in Austria, he was not allowed to re-enter the country, and he was thus forced to live in forced exile. Pavel Kohout is an internationally acclaimed play-writer, poet and prose-writer.
Kohout, Pavel. Entry updated 25 October 2021. Tagged: Author. (1928- ) Czech poet, playwright, author and, since his emigration in 1978, émigré activist; his relations with post-Communist Czech culture have not been easy, and he remains in Vienna.
1978 – Pavel Kohout celebrating his fiftieth birthday with Václav Havel and other friends in the Sázava house, under the supervision of State Security; the climax of the party was having the house searched.
Pavel Kohout. Dramatist, novelist, poet, screenplay writer and translator. One of the most frequently translated writers, he was forced to emigrate in 1978 and in 1980 became an Austrian citizen. He was awarded the Austrian Waldviertel Academy prize. He was born on 20 July 1928.
