About the author
JOSEF SKVORECKY is an award-winning author whose novels include The Cowards, The Bass Saxophone, The Swell Season and The Engineer of Human Souls. Among his numerous literary awards are the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1980), the Governor General’s Award for Fiction (1984) and the Czech Republic State Prize for Literature (1999). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1982, awarded the Order of the White Lion by the President of Czechoslovakia, Václav Havel, in 1990, and in 1992 was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Other titles by
The Swell Season
Ordinary Lives
A Novel
The Miracle Game
An Inexplicable Story
A Novel
Two Murders in My Double Life
A Novel
The Bass Saxophone
Two Novellas
When Eve Was Naked
A Journey Through Life
The End of Lieutenant Boruvka
Talkin Moscow Blues
Essays About Literature, Politics, Movies, And Jazz