Firmus Siculus), 1998 Krátké setkání, s vraždou (Brief Encounter, with Murder), 1999, co-written with Zdena Salivarová Setkání po letech, s vraždou (Encounter After Many Years, with Murder), 2001, co-written with Zdena Salivarová Setkání na konci éry, s vraždou (Encounter at the End of an Era, with Murder), 2001, co-written with Zdena Salivarová Obyčejné źivoty (Ordinary Lives), 2004 Novellas Legenda Emöke (The Legend of Emöke), 1963 Bassaxofon (The Bass Saxophone), 1967 Collections of short stories Sedmiramenný svícen (The Menorah), 1964 Ze života lepší společnosti (The Life of High Society), 1965 Smutek poručíka Borůvky (The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka), 1966 Babylónský příběh a jiné povídky ('A Babylonian Story and Other Stories), 1967 Hořkej svět (The Bitter World), 1969 Hříchy pro pátera Knoxe (Sins for Father Knox), 1973 Ze života české společnosti (The Life of Czech Society), 1985 Povídky tenorsaxofonisty (The Tenor Saxophonist's Story), 1993 Povídky z Rajského údolí (The Edenvale Stories), 1996 When Eve Was Naked, 2000 Collections of essays Nápady čtenáře detektivek (Reading Detective Stories), 1965 O nich – o nás (They – That Is: Us), 1968 Samožerbuch (The Book of Self-Praise), 1977 All the Bright Young Men and Women (English translation of Všichni ti bystří mladí muži a ženy), 1972 Na brigádě (Working Overtime), 1979 Jirí Menzel and the History of the Closely Watched Trains, 1982 Talkin' Moscow Blues, 1988 Franz Kafka, jazz a jiné marginálie (Franz Kafka, Jazz and other Marginal Matters), 1988 ... In the lonesome October, 1994 Le Camarade Joueur de jazz, 1996 References External links Biography and Bibliography Biography by Jan Čulík (papers held at the Hoover Institution Archives) 1924 births 2012 deaths Canadian male novelists Czechoslovak expatriates in Canada Czech publishers (people) Czech translators Czech male writers Czechoslovak defectors University of Toronto faculty Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers Members of the Order of Canada People from Náchod Recipients of the Order of the White Lion 20th-century translators 20th-century Canadian novelists Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Czechoslovak World War II forced labourers Charles University alumni