Hašek

American  

[hah-shek] / ˈhɑ ʃɛk /

noun

1. Jaroslav 1883–1923, Czech novelist and short-story writer.

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Hašek British  

/ ˈhaʃɛk /

noun

1. Jaroslav (ˈjarɔslaf). 1883–1923, Czech novelist and short-story writer; author of The Good Soldier Schweik (1923)

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Example Sentences

While Heller recognized a number of influences on his writing, including novelists Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Evelyn Waugh, and Vladimir Nabakov, the author once identified a single work that convinced him to write "Catch-22": the dark World War I comedy "The Good Soldier Švejk" by Czech author Jaroslav Hašek.

From Salon

Miller is 15th on the NHL’s career victories list, trailing Hall of Famer Dominik Hašek by just two wins.

From Washington Times

Like the work of other genre-bending authors—Gertrude Stein, David Foster Wallace—Hašek’s novel blurred the line between fact and fiction, thus revealing the assumptions that underlie literature as an institution.

From The New Yorker

As a doctoral candidate in Slavic literature, I am researching Jaroslav Hašek, a Czech writer whose career began with a literary hoax: when he was the editor of a magazine about animals, he fabricated scientific-sounding reports of fantastical beasts—including the Sulphur-Bellied Whale, the Sepia Infusorian, and the Irritable Bazouky Stag-Puss.

From The New Yorker

In 1911, Hašek founded the PFGFIDSDG, The Party of Incremental Progress within the Limits of the Law, which promised to reintroduce slavery and the Inquisition.

From The Guardian