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Jaroslav Hašek

1883 - 1923

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Jaroslav Hašek (Czech: [ˈjaroslaf ˈɦaʃɛk]; 1883–1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian, first anarchist and then communist, and commissar of the Red Army against the Czechoslovak Legion. He is best known for his novel The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War, an unfinished novel about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures. The novel has been translated into about 60 languages, making it the most translated novel in Czech literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jaroslav Hašek is the 257th most popular writer (down from 235th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Czechia and the 6th most popular Czech Writer.

Jaroslav Hasek is most famous for his satirical novel, The Good Soldier Švejk, which is about a Czech soldier who is drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jaroslav Hašek ranks 257 out of 7,302. Before him are Grazia Deledda, Henrik Pontoppidan, Dario Fo, Johanna Spyri, Joseph Heller, and Nikos Kazantzakis. After him are J. K. Rowling, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Primo Levi, Herta Müller, Dale Carnegie, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Among people born in 1883, Jaroslav Hašek ranks 11. Before him are John Maynard Keynes, Karl Jaspers, Anton Webern, Walter Gropius, Victor Francis Hess, and Nikos Kazantzakis. After him are Joseph Schumpeter, Lev Kamenev, Norman Haworth, Otto Heinrich Warburg, Grigory Zinoviev, and Pierre Laval. Among people deceased in 1923, Jaroslav Hašek ranks 7. Before him are Wilhelm Röntgen, Gustave Eiffel, Sarah Bernhardt, Vilfredo Pareto, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, and Princess Helena of the United Kingdom. After him are Constantine I of Greece, John Venn, Warren G. Harding, Pancho Villa, Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, and Edward W. Morley.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jaroslav Hašek ranks 29 out of 1,200. Before him are Karel Čapek (1890), Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766), Miloš Forman (1932), Ernst Mach (1838), Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850), and Edvard Beneš (1884). After him are Joseph Schumpeter (1883), Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583), Arthur Seyss-Inquart (1892), Leoš Janáček (1854), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907), and Emil Zátopek (1922).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Jaroslav Hašek ranks 6. Before him are Franz Kafka (1883), Milan Kundera (1929), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), and Karel Čapek (1890). After him are Max Brod (1884), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Karl Kraus (1874), and Jaroslav Seifert (1901).

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