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Dominik Tatarka Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature

Dominik Tatarka Collection Dominik Tatarka Collection at the Museum of Czech Literature

The collection of the Slovak writer and publicist Dominik Tatarka (1913–1989) contains unique correspondence, manuscripts and audio recordings illustrating life of this leading Czechoslovak writer, who had been critical to the communist regime since 1950s and became a “banned author” and dissident after 1968.

Location

  • Strahovské nádvoří 1, 118 38 Praha 1 - Hradčany, Czech Republic
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Languages

  • Czech
  • Slovak

Name of collection

  • Tatarka Dominik

Provenance and cultural activities

Description of content

Content

  • manuscripts (ego-documents, diaries, notes, letters, drafts, etc.): 1000-
  • voice recordings (including oral history recordings): 0-9

Geographical scope of recent operation

  • international

Date of founding

  • 1979

Place of founding

Creator(s) of content

Access type

  • visits by appointments

Author(s) of this page

  • Kůželová, Michaela

References

Kriššáková, Dominika. 2017. “Rebelující intelektuál v proměnách času- Dominik Tatarka a jeho působení v disidentském hnutí”. Diplomová práce. Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta humanitních studií. Online. https://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/166633.

PNP. 2017. Výroční zpráva 2016." Accessed October 17. http://www.pamatniknarodnihopisemnictvi.cz/content/fck/files/VyrocniZpravaPNP2016.pdf.

Sme.sk. 2009. “Dominik Tatarka zomrel pred 20 rokmi.” Last modified May 10. https://kultura.sme.sk/c/4836035/dominik-tatarka-zomrel-pred-20-rokmi.html.

Literárne informačné centrum. 2018. "Dominik Tatarka". Accessed June 1. http://www.litcentrum.sk/slovenski-spisovatelia/dominik-tatarka.

The description of this collection was created with the kind help of the director of the Museum of Czech Literature (PNP) Mgr. Zdeněk Freisleben, the head of the Literary Archive of the PNP PhDr. Tomáš Pavlíček, PhD., and the curator of the Literary Archive of the PNP PhDr. Petr Kotyk.

Kotyk, Petr, interview by Kůželová, Michaela, May 24, 2018. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

Last edited on: 2020-03-04 11:36:30