Karel Čapek | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Karel Čapek


00:01:20 1 Life
00:01:29 1.1 Early life and education
00:03:44 1.2 World War I and Interwar period
00:05:55 1.3 Late life and death
00:07:24 2 Writing
00:10:40 3 Etymology of irobot/i
00:12:06 4 Awards and honors
00:12:27 5 Selected works
00:12:36 5.1 Plays
00:13:48 5.2 Novels
00:14:44 5.3 Travel books
00:15:15 5.4 Other works
00:16:41 6 Selected bibliography
00:19:47 7 See also



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Karel Čapek (; Czech: [ˈkarɛl ˈtʃapɛk] (listen); 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938), a Czech writer of the early 20th century, filled multiple roles during his career, including those of playwright, dramatist, essayist, publisher, literary reviewer, photographer, and art critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his 1936 novel War with the Newts and 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which introduced the word robot. He also wrote many politically charged works dealing with the social turmoil of his time. Influenced by American pragmatic liberalism, he campaigned in favor of free expression and strongly opposed the rise of both fascism and communism in Europe.Though nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times, Čapek never won it. However, several awards commemorate his name, such as the Karel Čapek Prize, awarded every other year by the Czech PEN Club for literary work that contributes to reinforcing or maintaining democratic and humanist values in society. He also played a key role in establishing the Czechoslovak PEN Club as a part of International PEN.Čapek died on the brink of World War II as the result of a lifelong medical condition,
but his legacy as a literary figure became well established after the war.