Bohumil Hrabal

Czech writer (1914–1997)

  • Fame54.5
  • Momentum0.1
  • Wikipedia7.1K
Source-basedFalling
Lived 1914–1997, aged 83
WritersWriter / Author
  • Wikipedia
    48 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1914–1997
    Aged 83
  • Known for
    Closely Watched Trains
    1966
Summary
Updated 2026-06-11

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.

Biography

About

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.

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Fame
Falling
54.5
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum0.1
Historical23.9
Now attention7.0
Source confidence65.0
Completeness65.0
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Sources

  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
    High confidence
  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence