What is Karel Čapek?
{{Infobox person | name = Karel Čapek | image = Karel-capek.jpg | caption = A photograph of Karel Čapek | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1890|01|09}} | birth_place = [[Malé Svatňovice]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1938|12|25|1890|01|09}} | death_place = [[Prague]] | nationality = [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]]; later [[Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakian]] | occupation = Translator, mythologist, director, photographer, playwright, journalist, future fiction, children book's, and book [[writer]], philosopher, painter, literary critic, essayist, poet | burial_place = Vyšehrad Cemetery, Prague | father = Antonín Čapek | mother = Olga Scheinpflugová }} '''Karel Čapek''' ([[English language|English]]: '''Charles Chapek'''; {{birth date|df=yes|1890|01|09}}{{spnd}}{{death date|df=yes|1938|12|25}}) was a [[Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakian]] [[writer]], who was the brother of [[Josef Čapek]], an [[painter]] and a [[writer]]. Čapek first coined the word [[robot]] in [[1920]], through a drama called, [[R.U.R]] (Short for ''Rossumov universal roboti'' in [[Czech language|Bohemian]]). The events in the first parts of the work take place in a factory where robots are produced. In this drama, robots seem to be like people, and they are like people in almost every way. == Work == === Dramas === * ''Love's Fatal Game'' (''Lásky hra osudná'', [[1910]]) * ''[[R.U.R]]'' (Short for ''Rossumov universal roboti'' in [[Czech language|Bohemian]], [[1920]]) * ''[[Pictures from the Insect's Life]]'' (''Ze života hmysu'', [[1921]]) * ''The Makropulos Affair'' (''Věc Makropulos'', [[1922]]) * ''Adam the Creator'' (''Adam stvořitel'', [[1927]]) * ''The White Disease'' (''Bílá nemoc'', [[1937]]) * ''The Mother'' (''Matka'', [[1938]]) === Prose === * ''The Luminous Depths'' (''Zárive hlubiny'', Karel's brother [[Josef Čapek|Josef]] co-wrote it) * ''Crusade o