shown and went straight into locked Communist archives due to the fact that its author "illegally" fled the country. In the spring and summer of 1968 Škvorecký and the Czech film director Miloš Forman jointly wrote a script synopsis to make a film version of The Cowards. After Škvorecký fled the Warsaw Pact invasion the synopsis was translated into English, but no film was made. In the 21st century the English translation was translated back into Czech and has been published. Prominent in his writing for radio was a long-running monthly series on literature for Voice of America. From 1973 to 1990 he wrote more than 200 of these shows covering notable literary works and discussing literary themes. He died on January 3, 2012, in Toronto, Ontario, from cancer; he was 87 years old. Awards Among his numerous literary awards are the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1980), the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language fiction (1984), the Czech Republic State Prize for Literature (1999), the Prize of the Comenius Pangea Foundation "For Improvement of Human Affairs" (2001) which he received with the Polish film director Andrzej Wajda as well as the Angelus Award (2009). Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1982. Awarded the Order of the White Lion by the President of Czechoslovakia, Václav Havel, 1990. In 1992 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. Škvorecký was a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, République Française, 1996. Selected bibliography Novels Konec nylonového věku (End of the Nylon Age), 1956 (banned by censors) Zbabělci (The Cowards), 1958 Lvíče (The Lion Cub, translated into English as Miss Silver's Past), 1969 Tankový prapor (The Tank Battalion, translated into English as The Republic of Whores), 1969 Mirákl (The Miracle Game), 1972 Prima sezóna (The Swell Season), 1975 Konec poručíka Borůvky (The End of Lieutenant Boruvka), 1975 Příběh inženýra lidských duší (The Engineer of Human Souls), 1977 Návrat poručíka Borůvky (The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka), 1980 Scherzo capriccioso (translated into English as Dvorak in Love), 1984 - story about Antonín Dvořák's time in America as director of the National Conservatory for Music. Nevěsta z Texasu (The Bride from Texas), 1992 Dvě vraždy v mém dvojím životě (Two Murders in My Double Life), 1999 Nevysvětlitelný příběh aneb Vyprávění Questa Firma Sicula (An Inexplicable Story, or, The Narrative of Questus