- Pavel Hak
Pavel Hak (born 1962,
Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech-born French playwright and author. Exiled to France in 1986, he studiedphilosophy at the Sorbonne. He has published four novels, "Safari", [cite news |title=Afrique de fantasmes |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/cgi-bin/ACHATS/712412.html |work=Le Monde |date=2001-06-29 |accessdate=2008-06-17 ] "Sniper", "Lutte à mort" and "Trans", [cite news |title=Tri sélectif |url=http://www.liberation.fr/culture/livre/210108.FR.php?mode=PRINTERFRIENDLY |work=Libération |date=2006-10-12 |accessdate=2008-06-17 ] though the second is the only one published in English translation. "Sniper" (2005) is a graphic account of genocide and torture in an un-named country. It met with largely positive reviews on publication in the UK [cite news |title=Paperbacks |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/paperbacks-descentbrthe-voyage-homebrlytton-strachey-by-himselfbrthe-secret-purposesbrdrybrsniperbrthe-earth-an-intimate-history-758042.html |work=The Independent |date=2005-04-01 |accessdate=2008-06-17 ] and the USA. [cite news |title=Fiction Chronicle |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/books/review/30wolk.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin |work=The New York Times |date=2005-10-30 |accessdate=2008-06-17 ]References
External links
* [http://www.readysteadybook.com/BookReview.aspx?isbn=1852428562 Review of "Sniper"]
* [http://www.theatre-contemporain.net/auteurs/hak/default.asp Pavel Hak CV (French)]
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