Supper of Ashes, Friday Murder, Czechs and Balances, As Golems Go
Benjamin Kuras (* April, 4, 1944) is an Anglo-Czech writer dubbed “a humorist who is taken seriously”[1] by The Prague Post and “Pope of Czech literature”[2] by the Czech daily Dnes. His non-fiction writing covers a broad variety of subjects from history, politics and religion to sex and food. His preferred dramatic genre is tragi-comedy.
Czech expatriate in London since 1968[3] (UK citizen since 1974), he worked for a decade as broadcaster with the BBC World Service and had his first English play performed on BBC Radio 4 in 1976. This was followed by further 15 plays,[4] mostly detective comedies, performed on radio and in small theatres in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Israel and the Czech Republic.[5]
His major success was Supper of Ashes, a tragi-comedy about the last days of the Italian Renaissance heretic philosopher Giordano Bruno. After a rehearsed reading at the Soho Poly in London, the play was taken up by BBC Radio and had a 16-month run in German translation in the repertory of Eurotheater in Bonn[6][7] where it was produced with the assistance of the Italian Institute of Culture and the University of Bonn. On the Czech stage, his play Friday Murder[8] remained in the repertory of a small Prague theatre from 2013[9][10] for 6 years and was voted best of the year at a festival of small-cast plays. His Never Done[11][12] played for 5 years in his birthplace Zlín and had a TV production.
In 1990, he started making return visits to the Czech Republic.[13] and took up writing again in Czech, with articles for several newspapers and magazines which by 2022 total over 3000. He is a regular contributor to the Czech mutation of Playboy. He has published over 30 books in Czech and 4 in English.[14] His latest Czech books, as well as a large number of articles, explore the suicide of Western civilisation and the perils it is currently facing. His latest produced play Self–Deceptions, written first in Czech, a comedy on the quirks of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (with a bit of help from Che Guevara), had its premier on Czech Radio in 2013. Kuras' translations for the Czech stage include Jeff Baron´s Visiting Mr. Green[15][16] and John Misto´s Madame Rubinstein[17][18]
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the Kura river. These boundaries, though, were probably never static—at times the territory of Caucasian Albania included land to the west of the Kura river...
— only Kuraš. Meanwhile, Old Persian did not allow names to end in -aš, so it would make sense for Persian speakers to change an original Kuraš into the...
Center". ilionx (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 April 2021. Benjamins & Snelleman 1917, p. 476. "Museum". Kura Hulanda. Retrieved 19 April 2021. "Otrobanda". "Het...
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director: Maïwenn 2023 Joy Ride; director Adele Lim 2023 Lee; director Ellen Kuras 2023 Lovely, Dark, and Deep; director: Teresa Sutherland 2023 Mafia Mamma;...
Frederick just as much as to learn about Prussia; and the pamphlets of Benjamin Franklin denouncing the British Crown to understand the reasons behind...
awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with three awards, The Dark Knight and Milk with two, and Departures...
Sommer, Benjamin D. (2009). The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-51872-7. Sommer, Benjamin D. (2011)...
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the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015. Caballero, Benjamin; Finglas, Paul M.; Toldra, Fidel, eds. (2015). Encyclopedia of Food and...
Nwachukwu - Director Engineering Nweze Obasi- Director Agricultural Services Benjamin Aneke- Director Planning and Design Ngozi Uche -Director Finance and Administration...
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mouth by Poti on the Black Sea coast, through the Surami Pass and along the Kura River to the Caspian Sea), a convention still followed by Herodotus in the...
full lineage is given as Kainuka ben Amshel ben Manshi ben Yohanan ben Benjamin ben Saron ben Naphtali ben Eliezer ben Moses (Arabic: قينقاع بن أمشيل بن...
suggests that the Chutus were surrounded by other Satavahana feudatories: the Kuras of Kolhapur in the north and the Sadakana Maharathis of Chandravalli. The...
metropolis beyond the Indus Valley". Expedition. 17 (2): 19–32. Valentine, Benjamin (2015). "Evidence for Patterns of Selective Urban Migration in the Greater...
Studies. 134: 66–88. doi:10.1017/S0075426914000068. JSTOR 43286072. Thomas, Benjamin D. (2014). Hezekiah and the Compositional History of the Book of Kin. Tübingen:...
Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond. John Benjamins. p. 57. ISBN 978-90-272-4899-2. "Loading... | Collections Online - Museum...
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