# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bohumil-hrabal
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:48:51.899Z

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name: "Bohumil Hrabal"
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description: "A Czech writer whose name surfaces in nearly every conversation about the country's best prose of the last century — though the source stops short of saying why."
tagline: "Czech writer (1914–1997)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1914-03-28"
deathDate: "1997-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           23.85686
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Bohumil Hrabal was born on 28 March 1914 in what would become Czechoslovakia. Over the decades that followed, he built a body of work that placed him in the top tier of Czech letters — a reputation that held through regime changes, censorship, and the fracturing of nations. By the time he died on 3 February 1997, his standing was secure: routinely listed among the finest Czech writers of the twentieth century, a benchmark others are measured against.