Reading: Josef Skvorecky
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
24-3-1998 8:00 PM
End Date
24-3-1998 9:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Tuesday, March 24, 1998, as part of the 29th Annual UND Writers Conference: “the use of [HISTORY],” Josef Skvorecky reads an excerpt from The Bride of Texas. Skvorecky also responds to audience questions about his life in the Czech state, his immigration to Canada, volunteer Czech immigrant soldiers in the Civil War, other important figures in Czech literature, and his current work.
Introduced by Steve Finney.
Reading: Josef Skvorecky
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Tuesday, March 24, 1998, as part of the 29th Annual UND Writers Conference: “the use of [HISTORY],” Josef Skvorecky reads an excerpt from The Bride of Texas. Skvorecky also responds to audience questions about his life in the Czech state, his immigration to Canada, volunteer Czech immigrant soldiers in the Civil War, other important figures in Czech literature, and his current work.
Introduced by Steve Finney.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1998/day1/1
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.