Bohumil Hrabal is read about 301 times a day, in 48 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
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Bohumil Hrabal 1985 český spisovatel foto Hana Hamplová.jpg?width=1200)
Bohumil Hrabal (cropped)
Bohumil Hrabal 1988 český spisovatel foto Hana Hamplová
Bohumil Hrabal a Jaromír Pelc v Kersku 1986
Bohumil Hrabal by Kubik 1994 01
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Bohumil Hrabal na zahradě své chaty v Kersku, 1989 (cropped).jpg?width=1200)
Bohumil Hrabal na zahradě své chaty v Kersku, 1989 (vpravo básník Jaromír Pelc)Awards
In their orbit
About this person
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.
In common with Bohumil
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