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Jaroslav Korán is a Czech translator and literary scholar. He was born on 17 January 1940 in Prague, Czechia. He studied Czech and Russian at Charles University in Prague and later worked as a translator and editor for the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Korán is best known for his translations of Russian literature into Czech, including works by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. He has also translated works by Czech authors such as Karel Čapek and Bohumil Hrabal into Russian. Korán has received numerous awards for his work, including the Czech Republic's State Prize for Literature in 2000 and the Order of Merit of the Czech Republic in 2006. He is a member of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts. Korán is married and has two children. His net worth is not publicly available.

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Occupation writer
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 17 January, 1940
Birthday 17 January
Birthplace Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Date of death June 2, 2017
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Nationality Czech Republic

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2017

Jaroslav Kořán died on 2 June 2017, at the age of 77.

1990

He also worked as the editor-and-chief of the Czech edition of Playboy during the 1990s.

1989

Kořán was one of the co-founders of the Civic Forum (OF) political movement in November 1989. In February 1990, Kořán was elected Mayor of Prague, becoming the city's first non-Communist since 1948. He served as mayor until September 1991.

1976

On 10 December 1976 Kořán was present at the first meeting of the Charter 77 signatories. Other members present at the meeting included Václav Havel, Pavel Kohout, Jiří Němec, Zdeněk Mlynář, and Václav Vendelín Komeda. Charter 77 was published in January 1977 with the names of 242 signatories, including Kořán.

1973

He was a writer, known for Smrt si vybírá (1973), Bigbít (1998) and Banánové rybicky (1999).

1970

Despite these setbacks, Kořán translated more than 70 works of American literature into Czech during the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the major works he translated included books authored by Kurt Vonnegut, Henry Miller, Roald Dahl, and Ken Kesey. Kořán's translation of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five", was uncredited because Kořán was serving his one-year prison term at the time of its publication.

1940

Jaroslav Korán was born on January 17, 1940 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.