Identity area
Reference code
CA OTUTF MS COLL 00611
Title
Jan Drabek Papers
Date(s)
- 1971-1986 (Creation)
Level of description
Manuscript Collection
Extent and medium
1 box
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Name of creator
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Correspondence between Jan Drabek, Josef Škvorecký, Zdena Salivarová, and Lumír Salivar (1971-1986), concerning 68 Publishers, Czech writers in exile, Czech publishing and translating. Includes information regarding surreptitious funding being given by several organizations to Czech banned writers, letters outing Czech cultural figures supporting Bolshevik organizations and includes also references to author and President Václav Havel, Nobel laureate Jaroslav Seifert and filmmaker Miloš Forman.
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Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/stack-retrieval-request
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Language of material
- Czech
- English
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Name access points
- Škvorecký, Josef (Subject)
- Salivarová, Zdena (Subject)
- Salivar, Lumír (Subject)
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Description control area
Description identifier
CA OTUTF MS COLL00611
Institution identifier
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto