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Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek — Czech writer (1890–1938). It is also recorded that karel Čapek died in 1938. It is also recorded that karel Čapek is recorded as translator, novelist, director and photographer.

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"Karel Čapek signs the first copies of his new novel Povětroň. (Photo Centropress.)" - Pestrý týden (magazine), 27.1.1934

National Library of the Czech Republic · Public domain

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Institutional cataloguing adds that karel Čapek is recorded as Cisleithania and Czechoslovakia.

Karel (right) and Josef Čapek (left, with glasses) with a radio set

Karel (right) and Josef Čapek (left, with glasses) with a radio set

not mentioned · OPELÍK, Jiří. Karel Čapek ve fotografii . Praha: SNK, 1991. pp 108

Karel Čapek, výstava fotografií, Galerie Deset, Praha, listopad 2011

Karel Čapek, výstava fotografií, Galerie Deset, Praha, listopad 2011

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This entry is compiled from 6 catalogued sources across 5 independent registers. The registers consulted are Internet Archive, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, DOAJ and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.

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