18/05/2026
“I’m as Czech as Czech can be. So you can see that with my desire to write something about human rights, the combination of my birth, my trips to Russia, my interest in Havel and his arrest, the appearance of Charter 77 were the linking threads that gave me the idea for Professional Foul.”
(from a 1978 interview in the New York Times; image is a modified image from ALAMY)
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