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Urbánek, Zdeněk

Author and translator, especially noted for his translations of Shakespeare into Czech. After 1968 he became a proscribed writer in Czechoslovakia, though he continued to publish under friends' names and in samizdat. Urbánek was the Havel's neighbor at their country house at Hrádeček and is a close friend.