What is Pavel Kohout?
[[Image:2008.03.12. Pavel Kohout by Kubik 01.JPG|thumb|Pavel Kohout, [[Warsaw]] ([[Poland]]), March 12, 2008]] '''Pavel Kohout''' (born July 20, 1928 in [[Prague]]) is a [[Czech people|Czech]] and [[Austrians|Austrian]] novelist, playwright, and poet. He was a member of the [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]]. He was a [[Prague Spring]] exponent and dissident in the 1970s until he was expelled to Austria. He was a founding member of the [[Charter 77]] movement. ==Decorations and awards== * 1969 Franz Theodor Csokor Award * 1977 [[Austrian State Prize for European Literature]] * 1997 ''Das Glas der Vernunft'' (The Glass of Reason) (Kassel Citizenship Award) * 1999 [[Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class]]<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf | title = Reply to a parliamentary question | language = German | page=1176 | trans-title = | format = pdf | accessdate = 21 January 2013 }}</ref> * 2002 [[Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] * 2004 Honorary Medal of the Austrian capital Vienna in gold ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kohout, Pavel}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Czech novelists]] [[Category:Austrian poets]] [[Category:Austrian playwrights]] [[Category:Czech poets]] [[Category:Writers from Prague]] [[Category:Charter 77 signatories]] {{bio-stub}}