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3 unusual facts about Karel Čapek


Anna Cropper

She made her television debut as Chrysalis in "The Insect Play" in 1960, based on the 1921 play by Czech brothers Josef and Karel Čapek.

Bag people

In literature, bag people are mentioned, for example, in Remarque's The Road Back and Karel Čapek's The Absolute at Large.

Lotrando a Zubejda

Written by Zdeněk Svěrák as adaptation of two fairytales - Doctors´ and Highwaymans´ fairytale from Karel Čapek fairytale book Niner Fairytales: And One More Thrown in for Good Measure


1883 eruption of Krakatoa

Czech writer Karel Čapek was inspired by the name and intensity of the eruption when writing his 1922 novel Krakatit about an abuse of power in a form of powerful explosive of the same name.

Malé Svatoňovice

Karel Čapek's brother Josef was the first Czech Cubist and in the Čapek Brothers Museum there is some of his work displayed.

Nano Riantiarno

His credits with Teater Popular include Shakespeare's Macbeth, Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Karel Čapek's The White Disease, and his own Doa Natal (Christmas Prayer).


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Nirmal Verma

He stayed in Prague for 10 years, where he was invited by Oriental Institute to initiate a program of translation of modern Czech writers like Karel Capek, Milan Kundera, and Bohumil Hrabal, to Hindi; he also learnt the Czech language, and translated nine world classics to Hindi, before returning home in 1968, as the result of Prague Spring.