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Full Name

Michal Schonberg

Bio

Michal Schonberg was born in England in 1945. He lived in Czechoslovakia until 1966, then emigrated to Canada. He studied at McGill University in Montreal and at the University of Toronto. Since 1970 he has taught in the Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Between 1980 and 1985 he was Literary Manager and Dramaturge of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Stratford, Ontario. He has published extensively on Czech theatre and on other arts-related subjects. His most recent book is Walk Through That Gate! Conversations with Aleš Veselý, (Torst: Prague, 2006). His relationship with the Škvoreckýs started in 1969. He was secretary-treasurer of Sixty Eight Publishers after it became a non-profit organization in 1977.

Affiliation

University of Toronto

Country

Canada

Case studies by Michal Schonberg

Case study :

Sixty Eight Publishers

Exiled from their homeland after the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, two authors – a married couple – conceived the bold idea of publishing their own works and those of their fellow exiles. By 1994 they had issued more than 200 books from their press in Toronto, earning accolades for their tenacity and contributions to literary and cultural freedom.