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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83" title="كارل تشابيك – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="كارل تشابيك" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C3%87apek" title="Karel Çapek – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Karel Çapek" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%BE%DA%A9" title="کارل چاپک – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="کارل چاپک" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BA" title="Карал Чапек – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Карал Чапек" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BB_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%8D%D0%BA" title="Карэл Чапэк – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Карэл Чапэк" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BA" title="Карел Чапек – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Карел Чапек" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%81%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A2%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%A3%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%86%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%95%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%82" title="ཁ་རེལ་ཆ་ཕེག – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ཁ་རེལ་ཆ་ཕེག" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%BB_%CE%A4%CF%83%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%B5%CE%BA" title="Κάρελ Τσάπεκ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κάρελ Τσάπεκ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%BE%DA%A9" title="کارل چاپک – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کارل چاپک" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B9%B4%EB%A0%90_%EC%B0%A8%ED%8E%98%ED%81%AC" title="카렐 차페크 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="카렐 차페크" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%AC_%D5%89%D5%A1%D5%BA%D5%A5%D5%AF" title="Կարել Չապեկ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Կարել Չապեկ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%95" title="करेल चपेक – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="करेल चपेक" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hornjoserbsce</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%9C_%D7%A6%27%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%A7" title="קארל צ'אפק – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קארל צ'אפק" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A_%E1%83%A9%E1%83%90%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%99%E1%83%98" title="კარელ ჩაპეკი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="კარელ ჩაპეკი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BA" title="Карел Чапек – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Карел Чапек" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolus_%C4%8Capek" title="Carolus Čapek – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Carolus Čapek" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karels_%C4%8Capeks" title="Karels Čapeks – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Karels Čapeks" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BA" title="Карел Чапек – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Карел Чапек" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A_%E1%83%A9%E1%83%90%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%99%E1%83%98" title="კარელ ჩაპეკი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="კარელ ჩაპეკი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83" title="كارل تشابيك – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="كارل تشابيك" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF" title="カレル・チャペック – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="カレル・チャペック" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapek_Karel" title="Chapek Karel – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Chapek Karel" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%B2_%E0%A8%9A%E0%A8%AA%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%95" title="ਕਾਰਲ ਚਪੇਕ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਕਾਰਲ ਚਪੇਕ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%BE%DB%90%DA%A9" title="کارل چاپېک – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="کارل چاپېک" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BA" title="Карел Чапек – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Карел Чапек" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BA,_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB" title="Чапек, Карел – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Чапек, Карел" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BA" title="Карел Чапек – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Карел Чапек" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%A5_%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%9B%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%81" title="กาแร็ล ชาแป็ก – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="กาแร็ล ชาแป็ก" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek" title="Karel Čapek – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Karel Čapek" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C3%87apek" title="Karel Çapek – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="Karel Çapek" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkmençe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BA" title="Карел Чапек – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Карел Чапек" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%BE%DB%8C%DA%A9" title="کارل چاپیک – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="کارل چاپیک" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Karel Čapek</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Karel-capek.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Karel-capek.jpg" decoding="async" width="210" height="299" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="210" data-file-height="299" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1890-01-09</span>)</span>9 January 1890<br /><a href="/wiki/Mal%C3%A9_Svato%C5%88ovice" title="Malé Svatoňovice">Malé Svatoňovice</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austria-Hungary" title="Austria-Hungary">Austria-Hungary</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">25 December 1938<span style="display:none">(1938-12-25)</span> (aged 48)<br /><a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a>, <a href="/wiki/Second_Czechoslovak_Republic" title="Second Czechoslovak Republic">Czechoslovakia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Vy%C5%A1ehrad_Cemetery" title="Vyšehrad Cemetery">Vyšehrad Cemetery</a>, Prague</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Pen name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname" style="line-height:1.4em;">K. Č., B. Č.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r979066050">.mw-parser-output ul.cslist,.mw-parser-output ul.sslist{margin:0;padding:0;display:inline-block;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output ul.cslist-embedded{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .cslist li,.mw-parser-output .sslist li{margin:0;padding:0 0.25em 0 0;display:inline-block}.mw-parser-output .cslist li:after{content:", "}.mw-parser-output .sslist li:after{content:"; "}.mw-parser-output .cslist li:last-child:after,.mw-parser-output .sslist li:last-child:after{content:none}</style><ul class="cslist"><li>Writer</li><li>critic</li><li>journalist</li></ul></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Czech_language" title="Czech language">Czech</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Czechoslovakia</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Education</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</a> in Philosophy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Charles_University_in_Prague" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles University in Prague">Charles University in Prague</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Period</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Modern (<a href="/wiki/20th_century_in_literature" title="20th century in literature">20th century</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; 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(May 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">from 1904</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Employer</th><td class="infobox-data org" style="line-height:1.4em;">Newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Lidov%C3%A9_noviny" title="Lidové noviny">Lidové noviny</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i><a href="/wiki/R.U.R" class="mw-redirect" title="R.U.R">R.U.R</a></i><br /><i>Válka s mloky</i> <i>(<a href="/wiki/War_with_the_Newts" title="War with the Newts">War with the Newts</a>)</i><br /><i>Bílá nemoc</i> <i>(<a href="/wiki/The_White_Disease" title="The White Disease">The White Disease</a>)</i><br /><i>Továrna na absolutno</i> <i>(<a href="/wiki/The_Absolute_at_Large" title="The Absolute at Large">The Absolute at Large</a>)</i><br /><i><a href="/wiki/Krakatit" class="mw-redirect" title="Krakatit">Krakatit</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/TCH_Rad_T-G-Masaryka_1tr_%281990%29_BAR.svg/23px-TCH_Rad_T-G-Masaryka_1tr_%281990%29_BAR.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/TCH_Rad_T-G-Masaryka_1tr_%281990%29_BAR.svg/35px-TCH_Rad_T-G-Masaryka_1tr_%281990%29_BAR.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/TCH_Rad_T-G-Masaryka_1tr_%281990%29_BAR.svg/46px-TCH_Rad_T-G-Masaryka_1tr_%281990%29_BAR.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="218" data-file-height="60" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Garrigue_Masaryk" title="Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk">Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk</a> <small>(in memoriam)</small></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Olga_Scheinpflugov%C3%A1" title="Olga Scheinpflugová">Olga Scheinpflugová</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Antonín Čapek <small>(father)</small><br />Božena Čapková <small>(mother)</small></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Josef_%C4%8Capek" title="Josef Čapek">Josef Čapek</a> <small>(brother)</small><br />Helena Čapková <small>(sister)</small></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%C4%8Capek_Signature.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/%C4%8Capek_Signature.svg/150px-%C4%8Capek_Signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/%C4%8Capek_Signature.svg/225px-%C4%8Capek_Signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/%C4%8Capek_Signature.svg/300px-%C4%8Capek_Signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="336" data-file-height="166" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Karel Čapek</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Czech:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="cs-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Czech" title="Help:IPA/Czech">[ˈkarɛl<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈtʃapɛk]</a></span> <span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/7\/79\/Cs-Karel_Capek.ogg\/Cs-Karel_Capek.ogg.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","data":{"ipa":"","text":"","lang":"en","wikibase":"","file":"Cs-Karel Capek.ogg"},"classes":["ext-phonos-PhonosButton","noexcerpt","ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel"]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/79/Cs-Karel_Capek.ogg/Cs-Karel_Capek.ogg.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"><span class="oo-ui-iconElement-icon oo-ui-icon-volumeUp"></span><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label"></span><span class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:Cs-Karel_Capek.ogg" title="File:Cs-Karel Capek.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist. He has become best known for his <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a>, including his novel <i><a href="/wiki/War_with_the_Newts" title="War with the Newts">War with the Newts</a></i> (1936) and play <i><a href="/wiki/R.U.R." title="R.U.R.">R.U.R.</a></i> (<i>Rossum's Universal Robots</i>, 1920), which introduced the word <i><a href="/wiki/Robot" title="Robot">robot</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-ort_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ort-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-OED_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OED-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also wrote many politically charged works dealing with the social turmoil of his time. Influenced by American pragmatic liberalism,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he campaigned in favor of free expression and strongly opposed the rise of both <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communism</a> in Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-misterova_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-misterova-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrt20133_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrt20133-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Though nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a> seven times,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Čapek never received it. However, several awards commemorate his name,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> such as the Karel Čapek Prize, awarded every other year by the Czech PEN Club for literary work that contributes to reinforcing or maintaining democratic and humanist values in society.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also played a key role in establishing the Czechoslovak PEN Club as a part of <a href="/wiki/International_PEN" class="mw-redirect" title="International PEN">International PEN</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sayer_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sayer-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Čapek died on the brink of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> as the result of a lifelong medical condition.<sup id="cite_ref-ct24_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ct24-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His legacy as a literary figure became well established after the war.<sup id="cite_ref-misterova_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-misterova-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Capkuv_dum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Capkuv_dum.jpg/220px-Capkuv_dum.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Capkuv_dum.jpg/330px-Capkuv_dum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Capkuv_dum.jpg/440px-Capkuv_dum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2361" data-file-height="1725" /></a><figcaption>House of <a href="/wiki/Brothers_%C4%8Capek" title="Brothers Čapek">Čapek brothers</a> in Prague 10, Vinohrady</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Karel Čapek was born in 1890 in the village of <a href="/wiki/Mal%C3%A9_Svato%C5%88ovice" title="Malé Svatoňovice">Malé Svatoňovice</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Bohemia" title="Bohemia">Bohemian</a> mountains. However, six months after his birth, the Čapek family moved to their own house in <a href="/wiki/%C3%9Apice" title="Úpice">Úpice</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrt201317_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrt201317-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Karel Čapek's father, Antonín Čapek, worked as a doctor at the local textile factory.<sup id="cite_ref-oregon_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oregon-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Antonín was a very active person; apart from his work as a doctor, he also co-funded the local museum and was a member of the town council.<sup id="cite_ref-zena_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zena-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite opposing his father's <a href="/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism">materialist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Positivism" title="Positivism">positivist</a> views, Karel Čapek loved and admired his father, later calling him "a good example<span class="nowrap"> </span>... of the generation of <a href="/wiki/Czech_national_revival" class="mw-redirect" title="Czech national revival">national awakeners</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrt201319_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrt201319-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Karel's mother, Božena Čapková, was a homemaker.<sup id="cite_ref-oregon_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oregon-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike her husband, she did not like life in the country, and she suffered from long-term depression.<sup id="cite_ref-zena_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zena-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite that, she assiduously collected and recorded local folklore, such as legends, songs and stories.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrt201317–18_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrt201317–18-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Karel was the youngest of three siblings. He would maintain an especially close relationship with his brother <a href="/wiki/Josef_%C4%8Capek" title="Josef Čapek">Josef</a>, a highly successful painter, living and working with him throughout his adult life.<sup id="cite_ref-Klima_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Klima-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His sister, Helena, was a talented pianist who later become a writer and published several memoirs about Karel and Josef.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After finishing elementary school in Úpice, Karel moved with his grandmother to <a href="/wiki/Hradec_Kr%C3%A1lov%C3%A9" title="Hradec Králové">Hradec Králové</a>, where he started attending high school. Two years later the school expelled him for taking part in an illegal students' club.<sup id="cite_ref-oregon_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oregon-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Čapek later described the club as a "very non-murderous anarchist society".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After this incident he moved to <a href="/wiki/Brno" title="Brno">Brno</a> with his sister and attempted to finish high school there, but two years later he moved again, to <a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a>, where he finished high school at the Academic Grammar School in 1909.<sup id="cite_ref-oregon_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oregon-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his teenage years Čapek became enamored with the visual arts, especially <a href="/wiki/Cubism" title="Cubism">Cubism</a>, which influenced his later writing.<sup id="cite_ref-harkins_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-harkins-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy and aesthetics in Prague at <a href="/wiki/Charles_University" title="Charles University">Charles University</a>, but he also spent some time at the <a href="/wiki/Humboldt_University_of_Berlin" title="Humboldt University of Berlin">Friedrich Wilhelm University</a> in Berlin and at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Paris" title="University of Paris">Sorbonne</a> University in Paris.<sup id="cite_ref-oregon_13-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oregon-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Tobranova-Kuhnnova_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tobranova-Kuhnnova-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While still a university student he wrote some works on contemporary art and literature.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrt201321_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrt201321-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He graduated with a doctorate of philosophy in 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_I_and_Interwar_period">World War I and Interwar period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: World War I and Interwar period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Exempted from military service due to the spinal problems that would haunt him his whole life, Čapek observed World War I from Prague. His political views were strongly affected by the war, and as a budding journalist he began to write on topics like <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Consumerism" title="Consumerism">consumerism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-js_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-js-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through social circles, the young author developed close relationships with many of the political leaders of the nascent Czechoslovak state, including <a href="/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Garrigue_Masaryk" class="mw-redirect" title="Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk">Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk</a>, Czechoslovak patriot and the first <a href="/wiki/President_of_Czechoslovakia" class="mw-redirect" title="President of Czechoslovakia">President of Czechoslovakia</a>, and his son <a href="/wiki/Jan_Masaryk" title="Jan Masaryk">Jan Masaryk</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-newsome_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-newsome-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who would later become minister of foreign affairs. T. G. Masaryk was a regular guest at Čapek's "<a href="/wiki/Friday_Men" title="Friday Men">Friday Men</a>" <a href="/wiki/Garden_party" class="mw-redirect" title="Garden party">garden parties</a> for leading Czech intellectuals. Čapek was also a member of Masaryk's <i><a href="/wiki/Hrad_(politics)" title="Hrad (politics)">Hrad</a></i> political network.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their frequent conversations on various topics later served as the basis for Čapek's book <i>Talks with T. G. Masaryk</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vysehrad_Nahrobek_Karla_Capka_a_Olgy_Scheinpflugove.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Vysehrad_Nahrobek_Karla_Capka_a_Olgy_Scheinpflugove.jpg/220px-Vysehrad_Nahrobek_Karla_Capka_a_Olgy_Scheinpflugove.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Vysehrad_Nahrobek_Karla_Capka_a_Olgy_Scheinpflugove.jpg/330px-Vysehrad_Nahrobek_Karla_Capka_a_Olgy_Scheinpflugove.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Vysehrad_Nahrobek_Karla_Capka_a_Olgy_Scheinpflugove.jpg/440px-Vysehrad_Nahrobek_Karla_Capka_a_Olgy_Scheinpflugove.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1944" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Tomb of Karel Čapek and Olga Scheinpflugová at Vyšehrad cemetery</figcaption></figure> <p>Čapek began his writing career as a journalist. With his brother Josef, he worked as an editor for the Czech paper <i><a href="/wiki/N%C3%A1rodn%C3%AD_listy" title="Národní listy">Národní listy</a></i> <i>(The National Newspaper)</i> from October 1917 to April 1921.<sup id="cite_ref-pamatnik_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pamatnik-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon leaving, he and Josef joined the staff of <i><a href="/wiki/Lidov%C3%A9_noviny" title="Lidové noviny">Lidové noviny</a></i> <i>(The People's Paper)</i> in April 1921.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Čapek's early attempts at fiction were short stories and plays for the most part written with his brother <a href="/wiki/Josef_%C4%8Capek" title="Josef Čapek">Josef</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-radio_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-radio-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His first international success was <i><a href="/wiki/R.U.R." title="R.U.R.">R.U.R.</a></i>, a dystopian work about a bad day at a factory populated with <a href="/wiki/Sentience" title="Sentience">sentient</a> <a href="/wiki/Android_(robot)" title="Android (robot)">androids</a>. The play was translated into English in 1922, and was being performed in the UK and America by 1923. Throughout the 1920s, Čapek worked in many writing genres, producing both fiction and non-fiction, but worked primarily as a journalist. </p><p>In the 1930s, Čapek's work focused on the threat of brutal <a href="/wiki/National_socialist" class="mw-redirect" title="National socialist">national socialist</a> and fascist dictatorships; by the mid-1930s, Čapek had become "an outspoken anti-fascist".<sup id="cite_ref-js_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-js-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also became a member of <a href="/wiki/International_PEN" class="mw-redirect" title="International PEN">International PEN</a> Club. He established, and was the first president of the Czechoslovak PEN Club.<sup id="cite_ref-sayer_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sayer-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Late_life_and_death">Late life and death</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Late life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1935, he married actress <a href="/wiki/Olga_Scheinpflugov%C3%A1" title="Olga Scheinpflugová">Olga Scheinpflugová</a>, after a long acquaintance.<sup id="cite_ref-oregon_13-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oregon-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKlíma2001200–206_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKlíma2001200–206-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1938, it became clear that the Western allies, namely <a href="/wiki/French_Third_Republic" title="French Third Republic">France</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, would fail to fulfil the pre-war treaty agreements, and they <a href="/wiki/Western_betrayal" title="Western betrayal">refused to defend</a> Czechoslovakia against <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a>. Although offered the chance to go to exile in England, Čapek refused to leave his country – even though the Nazi <a href="/wiki/Gestapo" title="Gestapo">Gestapo</a> had named him "public enemy number two".<sup id="cite_ref-mailbox_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mailbox-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While repairing flood damage to his family's summer house in <a href="/wiki/Star%C3%A1_Hu%C5%A5" title="Stará Huť">Stará Huť</a>, he contracted a common cold.<sup id="cite_ref-pamatnik_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pamatnik-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As he had suffered all his life from <a href="/wiki/Spondyloarthritis" title="Spondyloarthritis">spondyloarthritis</a> and was also a heavy smoker, Karel Čapek died of <a href="/wiki/Pneumonia" title="Pneumonia">pneumonia</a>, on 25 December 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-radio_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-radio-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Surprisingly, the Gestapo was not aware of his death. Several months later, just after the <a href="/wiki/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia" class="mw-redirect" title="German occupation of Czechoslovakia">German invasion of Czechoslovakia</a>, Nazi agents came to the Čapek family house in Prague to arrest him.<sup id="cite_ref-ct24_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ct24-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon discovering that he had already been dead for some time, they arrested and interrogated his wife Olga. She was later released and lived until 1968; she died onstage of a heart attack while performing one of her husband's plays.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His brother Josef was arrested in September and eventually died in the <a href="/wiki/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp" title="Bergen-Belsen concentration camp">Bergen-Belsen concentration camp</a> in April 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Karel Čapek and his wife are buried at the <a href="/wiki/Vy%C5%A1ehrad_cemetery" class="mw-redirect" title="Vyšehrad cemetery">Vyšehrad cemetery</a> in Prague. The inscription on the tombstone reads: "Here Josef Čapek, painter and poet, would have been buried. Grave far away."<sup id="cite_ref-mailbox_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mailbox-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing">Writing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Karel_%C4%8Capek_-_rukopis.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Karel_%C4%8Capek_-_rukopis.jpg/220px-Karel_%C4%8Capek_-_rukopis.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="207" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Karel_%C4%8Capek_-_rukopis.jpg/330px-Karel_%C4%8Capek_-_rukopis.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Karel_%C4%8Capek_-_rukopis.jpg/440px-Karel_%C4%8Capek_-_rukopis.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2197" data-file-height="2072" /></a><figcaption>Karel Čapek's handwriting</figcaption></figure> <p>Karel Čapek wrote on a wide variety of subjects. His works are known for their precise description of reality.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Čapek is renowned for his work with the <a href="/wiki/Czech_language" title="Czech language">Czech language</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He is known as a <a href="/wiki/Science-fiction_author" class="mw-redirect" title="Science-fiction author">science-fiction author</a> who wrote before science fiction became widely recognized as a separate genre. Many of his works also discuss ethical aspects of industrial inventions and processes already anticipated in the first half of the 20th century. These include <a href="/wiki/Mass_production" title="Mass production">mass production</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear weapons</a> and intelligent artificial beings such as robots or androids. His most productive years were during <a href="/wiki/History_of_Czechoslovakia_(1918%E2%80%931938)" title="History of Czechoslovakia (1918–1938)">the First Republic of Czechoslovakia</a> (1918–1938).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Čapek also expressed fear of social disasters, dictatorship, violence, human stupidity, the unlimited power of corporations, and greed. He tried to find hope, and a way out. From the 1930s onward his work became increasingly <a href="/wiki/Anti-fascist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-fascist">anti-fascist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anti-militarist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-militarist">anti-militarist</a>, and critical of what he saw as "irrationalism".<sup id="cite_ref-ds_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ds-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Kl%C3%ADma" title="Ivan Klíma">Ivan Klíma</a>, in his biography of Čapek, notes his influence on modern Czech literature, as well as on the development of Czech as a written language. Čapek, along with contemporaries like <a href="/wiki/Jaroslav_Ha%C5%A1ek" title="Jaroslav Hašek">Jaroslav Hašek</a> (1883-1923), spawned part of the early 20th-century revival in written Czech thanks to their decision to use the vernacular. Klíma writes, "It is thanks to Čapek that the written Czech language grew closer to the language people actually spoke".<sup id="cite_ref-Klima_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Klima-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Čapek was also a translator, and his translations from French poetry inspired a new generation of Czech poets.<sup id="cite_ref-Klima_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Klima-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His books and plays include <a href="/wiki/Detective_fiction" title="Detective fiction">detective-stories</a>, novels, <a href="/wiki/Fairy_tale" title="Fairy tale">fairy tales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Play_(theatre)" title="Play (theatre)">theatre plays</a>, and even a book on gardening.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His most important works attempt to resolve problems of <a href="/wiki/Epistemology" title="Epistemology">epistemology</a>, to answer the question: "What is knowledge?" Examples include <i>Tales from Two Pockets</i>, and the first book of the trilogy of novels <i><a href="/wiki/Hordubal" title="Hordubal">Hordubal</a>,</i> <i>Meteor,</i> and <i>An Ordinary Life.</i> He also co-wrote (with his brother Josef) the libretto for <a href="/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk_Folprecht_(composer)" title="Zdeněk Folprecht (composer)">Zdeněk Folprecht</a>'s opera <i>Lásky hra osudná</i> in 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After World War II, Čapek's work was only reluctantly accepted by the communist government of Czechoslovakia (in office 1948–1989), because during his life he had refused to accept communism as a viable alternative. He was the first in a series of influential non-Marxist intellectuals who wrote a newspaper essay in a series called "Why I am not a Communist".<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009 (70 years after his death), a book was published containing extensive correspondence by Karel Čapek, in which the writer discusses <a href="/wiki/Pacifism" title="Pacifism">pacifism</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Conscientious_Objectors" class="mw-redirect" title="Conscientious Objectors">conscientious objection</a> to military service with lawyer Jindřich Groag from <a href="/wiki/Brno" title="Brno">Brno</a>. Until then, only a portion of these letters were known.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <p><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Miller" title="Arthur Miller">Arthur Miller</a> wrote in 1990: </p><blockquote> <p>I read Karel Čapek for the first time when I was a college student long ago in the Thirties. There was no writer like him ... prophetic assurance mixed with surrealistic humour and hard-edged social satire: a unique combination...he is a joy to read.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology_of_robot">Etymology of <i>robot</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Etymology of robot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:R.U.R._by_Karel_%C4%8Capek_1939.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/R.U.R._by_Karel_%C4%8Capek_1939.jpg/220px-R.U.R._by_Karel_%C4%8Capek_1939.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="347" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/R.U.R._by_Karel_%C4%8Capek_1939.jpg/330px-R.U.R._by_Karel_%C4%8Capek_1939.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/R.U.R._by_Karel_%C4%8Capek_1939.jpg/440px-R.U.R._by_Karel_%C4%8Capek_1939.jpg 2x" data-file-width="783" data-file-height="1236" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots)" class="mw-redirect" title="R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)">R.U.R.</a></i> theatrical poster, 1939</figcaption></figure> <p>Karel Čapek introduced and made popular the frequently used international word <i><a href="/wiki/Robot" title="Robot">robot</a></i>, which first appeared in his play <i><a href="/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots)" class="mw-redirect" title="R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)">R.U.R.</a></i> in 1920. While it is frequently thought that he was the originator of the word, he wrote a short letter in reference to an article in the <i><a href="/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary" title="Oxford English Dictionary">Oxford English Dictionary</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Etymology" title="Etymology">etymology</a> in which he named his brother, painter and writer <a href="/wiki/Josef_%C4%8Capek" title="Josef Čapek">Josef Čapek</a>, as its actual inventor.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an article in the Czech journal <i><a href="/wiki/Lidov%C3%A9_noviny" title="Lidové noviny">Lidové noviny</a></i> in 1933, he also explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures <i>laboři</i> (from Latin <i>labor</i>, work). However, he did not like the word, seeing it as too artificial, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested <i>roboti</i> (<i>robots</i> in English).<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The word <i>robot</i> comes from the word <i>robota</i>. The word robota means literally "<a href="/wiki/Corv%C3%A9e" title="Corvée">corvée</a>", "serf labor", and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech. It also means "work", "labor" in colloquial <a href="/wiki/Slovak_(language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Slovak (language)">Slovak</a>, archaic Czech, and many other Slavic languages (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_(language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bulgarian (language)">Bulgarian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russian_(language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian (language)">Russian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Serbian_(language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Serbian (language)">Serbian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polish_(language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish (language)">Polish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Macedonian_(language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Macedonian (language)">Macedonian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_(language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrainian (language)">Ukrainian</a>, etc.). It derives from the reconstructed <a href="/wiki/Proto-Slavic_language" title="Proto-Slavic language">Proto-Slavic</a> word <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orbota" class="extiw" title="wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/orbota">*orbota</a>, meaning "work, hard work, obligatory work for the king, or a short form used for plowing". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honours">Awards and honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Awards and honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The asteroid <a href="/wiki/1931_%C4%8Capek" title="1931 Čapek">1931 Čapek</a>, discovered by <a href="/wiki/Lubo%C5%A1_Kohoutek" title="Luboš Kohoutek">Luboš Kohoutek</a> was named after him.<sup id="cite_ref-springer_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-springer-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Čapek received the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Garrigue_Masaryk" title="Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk">Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk</a>, in memoriam, in 1991. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Richard_E._Pattis" title="Richard E. Pattis">Richard E. Pattis</a> named the <a href="/wiki/Karel_(programming_language)" title="Karel (programming language)">Karel (Programming Language)</a> for Čapek.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Selected works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plays">Plays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Plays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1920 – <i>The Outlaw</i> (<i>Loupežník</i>)</li> <li>1920 – <i><a href="/wiki/R.U.R." title="R.U.R.">R.U.R.</a></i> (<i>Rossum's Universal Robots</i>), (<i>Rossumovi univerzální roboti</i>) – play with one of the first examples of artificial intelligence human-like beings in art and literature.</li> <li>1921 – <i><a href="/wiki/Pictures_from_the_Insects%27_Life" title="Pictures from the Insects' Life">Pictures from the Insects' Life</a></i> (<i>Ze života hmyzu</i>), also known as <i>The Insect Play</i> or <i>The Life of the Insects</i>, with Josef Čapek, a satire in which insects stand in for various human characteristics: the flighty, vain <a href="/wiki/Butterfly" title="Butterfly">butterfly</a>, the obsequious, self-serving <a href="/wiki/Dung_beetle" title="Dung beetle">dung beetle</a>.</li> <li>1922 – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Makropulos_Affair" title="The Makropulos Affair">The Makropulos Affair</a></i> (<i>Věc Makropulos</i>) – play about human immortality, not really from a science-fiction point of view. <a href="/wiki/Leo%C5%A1_Jan%C3%A1%C4%8Dek" title="Leoš Janáček">Leoš Janáček's</a> opera is based on that.</li> <li>1927 – <i>Adam the Creator</i> (<i>Adam stvořitel</i>) – The titular hero tries to destroy the world and replace it with a better one.<sup id="cite_ref-ds_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ds-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was adapted into <a href="/wiki/Japan_Animator_Expo" title="Japan Animator Expo">an animated short</a> by Japanese director <a href="/wiki/Mahiro_Maeda" title="Mahiro Maeda">Mahiro Maeda</a> in 2015.</li> <li>1937 – <i><a href="/wiki/The_White_Disease" title="The White Disease">The White Disease</a></i> (<i>Bílá nemoc</i>) – earlier translated as (<i>Power and Glory</i>). About the conflict between a pacifist doctor and the fascistic Marshal. This was the answer to coming Nazi era in the air, just before the start of WWII.<sup id="cite_ref-ds_41-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ds-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1938 – <a href="/wiki/The_Mother_(Matka)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Mother (Matka)"><i>The Mother</i> (<i>Matka</i>)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1922 – <i><a href="/wiki/The_Absolute_at_Large" title="The Absolute at Large">The Absolute at Large</a></i> (<i>Továrna na absolutno</i>) – novel which can be interpreted as a vision of <a href="/wiki/Consumer_society" class="mw-redirect" title="Consumer society">consumer society</a>.</li> <li>1922 – <i><a href="/wiki/Krakatit" class="mw-redirect" title="Krakatit">Krakatit</a></i> – novel, the plot of which includes a prediction of a nuclear-weapon-like explosive.</li> <li>1933 – <i><a href="/wiki/Hordubal" title="Hordubal">Hordubal</a></i> – First part of the "<a href="/wiki/Nous" title="Nous">Noetic</a> Trilogy".</li> <li>1934 – <i>Meteor</i> (<i>Povětroň</i>) – Second part of the "Noetic Trilogy".</li> <li>1934 – <i>An Ordinary Life</i> (<i>Obyčejný život</i>) – Third part of the "Noetic Trilogy".</li> <li>1936 – <i><a href="/wiki/War_with_the_Newts" title="War with the Newts">War with the Newts</a></i> (<i>Válka s mloky</i>) – satirical <a href="/wiki/Dystopia" title="Dystopia">dystopian</a> novel.</li> <li>1937 – <i>The First Rescue Party</i> (<i>První parta</i>) – novel based on the experiences of members of a rescue squad at the site of a mining accident. Became the basis for <a href="/wiki/Prvn%C3%AD_parta_(film)" title="První parta (film)">a film</a> in 1959.</li> <li>1939 – <i><a href="/wiki/Life_and_Work_of_the_Composer_Folt%C3%BDn" class="mw-redirect" title="Life and Work of the Composer Foltýn">Life and Work of the Composer Foltýn</a></i> (<i>Život a dílo skladatele Foltýna</i>) – unfinished, published posthumously</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Travel_books">Travel books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Travel books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Letters from Italy</i> (Italské listy, 1923)<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Letters from England</i> (Anglické listy, 1924)<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Letters from Spain</i> (Výlet do Španěl, 1930)<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Letters from Holland</i> (Obrázky z Holandska, 1932)<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Travels in the North</i> (Cesta na Sever, 1936)<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_works">Other works</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Other works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Stories from a Pocket</i> and <i>Stories from Another Pocket</i>, (Povídky z jedné a z druhé kapsy) – a common name for a cycle of short detective stories (5–10 pages long) that shared common attitude and characters, including The Last Judgement.</li> <li><i>How it is Made</i> (<i>Jak se co dělá</i>) – satiric novels on the life of theater, newspaper and movie studio.</li> <li><i>The Gardener's Year</i> (<i>Zahradníkův rok</i>, 1929) is exactly what it says it is: a year-round guide to gardening, charmingly written, with illustrations by his brother Josef Čapek.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Apocryphal Tales</i> (<i>Kniha apokryfů</i>, 1932, 2nd edition 1945)<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – short stories about literary and historical characters, such as <a href="/wiki/Hamlet" title="Hamlet">Hamlet</a>, a struggling playwright, <a href="/wiki/Pontius_Pilate" title="Pontius Pilate">Pontius Pilate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Don_Juan" title="Don Juan">Don Juan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander</a> arguing with his teacher <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sarah" title="Sarah">Sarah</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abraham" title="Abraham">Abraham</a> attempting to name ten good people so <a href="/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah" title="Sodom and Gomorrah">Sodom</a> can be saved.' <ul><li><i>The Punishment of Prometheus</i> (1932)</li> <li><i>Times Aren't What They Were</i> (1931)</li> <li><i>As in the Good Old Days</i> (1926)</li> <li><i>Thersites</i> (1931)</li> <li><i>Agathon, or Concerning Wisdom</i> (1920)</li> <li><i>Alexander the Great</i> (1937)</li> <li><i>The Death of Archimedes</i> (1938)</li> <li><i>The Roman Legions</i></li> <li><i>The Ten Righteous</i></li> <li><i>Pseudo Lot, or Concerning Patriotism</i> (1923)</li> <li><i>Christmas Eve</i></li> <li><i>Martha and Mary</i></li> <li><i>Lazarus</i></li> <li><i>The Fives Loaves</i> (1937)</li> <li><i>Benchanan</i> (1934)</li> <li><i>The Crucifixion</i> (1927)</li> <li><i>Pilate's Evening</i></li> <li><i>Pilate's Creed</i> (1920)</li> <li><i>The Emperor Diocletian</i> (1932)</li> <li><i>Attila</i> (1932)</li> <li><i>The Idol Breakers</i> (1936)</li> <li><i>Brother Francis</i></li> <li><i>Ophir</i> (1932)</li> <li><i>Goneril</i> (1933)</li> <li><i>Hamlet, Prince of Denmark</i> (1934)</li> <li><i>Don Juan's Confession</i> (1932)</li> <li><i>Romeo and Juliet</i> (1932)</li> <li><i>Master Hynek Rab of Kufstejn</i> (1933)</li> <li><i>Napoleon</i> (1933)</li></ul></li> <li><i>Nine Fairy Tales: And One More Thrown in for Good Measure</i> (<i>Devatero Pohádek a ještě jedna od Josefa Čapka jako přívažek</i>, 1932) – a collection of <a href="/wiki/Fairy_tale" title="Fairy tale">fairy tales</a>, aimed at children.</li> <li><i>Dashenka, or the Life of a Puppy</i> (<i>Dášeňka čili Život štěněte</i>, 1933)<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Shirts </i> (short story)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_bibliography">Selected bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Selected bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div><p><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="relation to Selected works and Other works above (September 2018)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><ul><li><i>The Absolute at Large</i>, 1922 (in Czech), 1927, <a href="/wiki/The_Macmillan_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="The Macmillan Company">The Macmillan Company</a>, New York, translator uncredited. Also published 1975, Garland Publishing <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0824014030" title="Special:BookSources/0824014030">0824014030</a>,</li> <li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kZD5ZeKILtwC">Apocryphal Tales</a></i>, 1945 (in Czech), 1997, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Catbird_Press&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Catbird Press (page does not exist)">Catbird Press</a> Paperback <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0945774346" title="Special:BookSources/0945774346">0945774346</a>, Translated by Norma Comrada</li> <li><i>An Atomic Phantasy: Krakatit</i> or simply <i>Krakatit</i>, 1924 (in Czech)</li> <li><i>Believe in People : the essential Karel Čapek : previously untranslated journalism and letters</i> 2010. Faber and Faber, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0571231621" title="Special:BookSources/978-0571231621">978-0571231621</a>. Selected and translated with an introduction by Šárka Tobrmanová-Kühnová; preface by <a href="/wiki/John_Carey_(critic)" title="John Carey (critic)">John Carey</a>.</li> <li><i>The Cheat</i>. Allen and Unwin, 1941.</li> <li><i>Cross Roads</i>, 2002, Catbird Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0945774559" title="Special:BookSources/0945774559">0945774559</a> cloth; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0945774540" title="Special:BookSources/0945774540">0945774540</a> trade paperback. Translation by Norma Comrada of "Boží muka" (1917) and "Trapné povídky" (1921).</li> <li><i>I Had a Dog and a Cat</i>. Allen & Unwin, 1940.</li> <li><i>Nine Fairy Tales: And One More Thrown in for Good Measure</i>, 1996, Northwestern Univ Press Paperback Reissue Edition, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/081011464X" title="Special:BookSources/081011464X">081011464X</a>. Illustrated by Josef Capek, Translated by Dagmar Herrmann</li> <li><i>R.U.R</i>, 1970, Pocket Books <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0671466054" title="Special:BookSources/0671466054">0671466054</a></li> <li><i>Tales from Two Pockets</i> 1928–29 (in Czech), 1994, Catbird Press Paperback, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0945774257" title="Special:BookSources/0945774257">0945774257</a>. Translation by Norma Comrada.</li> <li><i>Talks With T. G. Masaryk</i> (non-fiction). Biography of <a href="/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_Garrigue_Masaryk" class="mw-redirect" title="Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk">T. G. Masaryk</a>, founder of Czechoslovakia.</li> <li><i>Three Novels: Hordubal, Meteor, An Ordinary Life</i>, 1933–34, Translated by <a href="/wiki/M._and_R._Weatherall" class="mw-redirect" title="M. and R. Weatherall">M. and R. Weatherall</a>, 1990, Catbird Press</li> <li><i>Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader</i>. Collection of stories, plays and columns. Edited by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Kussi" title="Peter Kussi">Peter Kussi</a>, Catbird Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0945774079" title="Special:BookSources/0945774079">0945774079</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/War_with_the_Newts" title="War with the Newts">War with the Newts</a></i> 1936 (in Czech), 1967, Berkley Medallion Edition Paperback. Translated by <a href="/wiki/M._%26_R._Weatherall" class="mw-redirect" title="M. & R. Weatherall">M. & R. Weatherall</a>, March 1990, Catbird Press paperback, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0945774109" title="Special:BookSources/0945774109">0945774109</a>, October 1996, Northwestern University Press paperback <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0810114682" title="Special:BookSources/0810114682">0810114682</a>. Another English translation by Ewald Osers <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0945774105" title="Special:BookSources/978-0945774105">978-0945774105</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brothers_%C4%8Capek" title="Brothers Čapek">Brothers Čapek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czech_science_fiction_and_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Czech science fiction and fantasy">Czech science fiction and fantasy</a> Czechoslovak science-fiction</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ort-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ort_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOrt2013" class="citation book cs1">Ort, Thomas (2013). <i>Art and Life in Modernist Prague: Karel Capek and His Generation, 1911–1938</i>. Palgrave Macmillan. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1349295326" title="Special:BookSources/978-1349295326"><bdi>978-1349295326</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Art+and+Life+in+Modernist+Prague%3A+Karel+Capek+and+His+Generation%2C+1911%E2%80%931938&rft.pub=Palgrave+Macmillan&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-1349295326&rft.aulast=Ort&rft.aufirst=Thomas&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKarel+%C4%8Capek" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-OED-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-OED_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Oxford English Dictionary: robot n2</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHanley2008" class="citation book cs1">Hanley, Seán (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=UdZ-AgAAQBAJ"><i>The New Right in the New Europe: Czech Transformation and Right-Wing</i></a>. Routledge. p. 169. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0415341356" title="Special:BookSources/978-0415341356"><bdi>978-0415341356</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230821131510/https://books.google.com/books?id=UdZ-AgAAQBAJ">Archived</a> from the original on 21 August 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">28 July</span> 2018</span>. <q>The philosopher Vaclav Belohradsky, one of the few Czech intellectuals supportive of the 'civic' right during the early 1990s, [...] viewed Klaus's thinking as a return to the American-influenced pragmatic liberalism of the Czech essayist and writer Karel Capek [...].</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+New+Right+in+the+New+Europe%3A+Czech+Transformation+and+Right-Wing&rft.pages=169&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0415341356&rft.aulast=Hanley&rft.aufirst=Se%C3%A1n&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DUdZ-AgAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKarel+%C4%8Capek" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-misterova-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-misterova_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-misterova_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMisterova2010" class="citation journal cs1">Misterova, Ivona (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/september2010/misterova.html">"Letters from England: Views on London and Londoners by Karel Capek, the Czech "Gentleman Stroller of London Streets"</a>. <i>Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London</i>. <b>8</b> (2). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150121144712/http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/september2010/misterova.html">Archived</a> from the original on 21 January 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 July</span> 2016</span>. <q>The prize is awarded every other year for prosaic, dramatic or essayistic work by a Czech author which comprehensibly contributes to reinforcing or maintaining democratic and humanist values in society.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Czech+PEN+Club+awards+Karel+%C4%8Capek+Prize+to+Petr+%C5%A0abach&rft.pub=Ministry+of+Culture+of+the+Czech+Republic&rft.date=2016-01-19&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.czechlit.cz%2Fen%2Fczech-pen-club-awards-karel-capek-prize-to-petr-sabach%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKarel+%C4%8Capek" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-sayer-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-sayer_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-sayer_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Derek Sayer, <i>The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History</i>. 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English edition London: George Allen & Unwin, 1931.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Karel Čapek". <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Grove_Dictionary_of_Music_and_Musicians" title="The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians">The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians</a></i>. 2nd edition, Oxford, 2001.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">K. 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"Foreword" to <i>Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader</i>, edited by Peter Kussi.Catbird Press, 1990; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0945774079" title="Special:BookSources/0945774079">0945774079</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://capek.misto.cz/english/robot.html">Karel Capek – Who did actually invent the word "robot" and what does it mean?</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120204135259/http://capek.misto.cz/english/robot.html">Archived</a> 4 February 2012 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> at capek.misto.cz</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Margolius" title="Ivan Margolius">Ivan Margolius</a>,'The Robot of Prague', Newsletter, The Friends of Czech Heritage no. 17, Autumn 2017, pp. 3–6. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://czechfriends.net/images/RobotsMargoliusJul2017.pdf">https://czechfriends.net/images/RobotsMargoliusJul2017.pdf</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170911115134/https://czechfriends.net/images/RobotsMargoliusJul2017.pdf">Archived</a> 11 September 2017 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFŠáraBobíková2020" class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Šára, Filip; Bobíková, Lenka (9 January 2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/historie-pred-130-lety-se-narodil-literarni-velikan-ktery-dal-svetu-robota-toto-slovo-vsak-nevymyslel-40309280">"Před 130 lety se narodil literární velikán, který dal světu robota. Toto slovo však nevymyslel"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Novinky.cz" title="Novinky.cz">Novinky.cz</a></i> (in Czech)<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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"(1931) Čapek". <i>Dictionary of Minor Planet Names</i>. <a href="/wiki/Springer_Berlin_Heidelberg" class="mw-redirect" title="Springer Berlin Heidelberg">Springer Berlin Heidelberg</a>. p. 155. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-3-540-29925-7_1932">10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1932</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3540002383" title="Special:BookSources/978-3540002383"><bdi>978-3540002383</bdi></a>.</cite><span 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id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=sfQuAAAAIAAJ">Dashenka, or the Life of a Puppy</a></i> at <a href="/wiki/Google_Books" title="Google Books">Google Books</a></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Šulcová, Marie. Čapci, Ladění pro dvě struny, Poločas nadějí, Brána věčnosti. Praha: Melantrich 1993– 98</li> <li>Šulcová, Marie. Prodloužený čas Josefa Čapka. Praha: Paseka 2000</li> <li>Harkins, William Edward. Karel Čapek. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962.</li> <li>Gabriel, Jiří, ed. Slovník Českých Filozofů. V Brne: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 79–82 (in Czech).</li> <li>Swirski, Peter. "Chapter 4 Karel Čapek and the Politics of Memory" <i>From LowBrow to Nobrow</i>. Montreal, London: McGill–Queen's University Press, 2005.</li> <li>Milner, Andrew. "Chapter 6 From Rossums Universal Robots to Buffy the Vampire Slayer" <i>Literature, Culture and Society</i>. London, New York: Routledge, 2005.</li> <li>Margolius, Ivan. 'The Robot of Prague', Newsletter, The Friends of Czech Heritage no. 17, Autumn 2017, pp. 3–6. <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://czechfriends.net/images/RobotsMargoliusJul2017.pdf">https://czechfriends.net/images/RobotsMargoliusJul2017.pdf</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170911115134/https://czechfriends.net/images/RobotsMargoliusJul2017.pdf">Archived</a> 11 September 2017 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Čapek biographies in English</dt></dl> <ul><li><i>Karel Čapek: An Essay</i> by Alexander Matuška, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1964. Translation from the Slovak by Cathryn Alan of <i>Člověk proti zkáze: Pokus o Karla Čapka</i>.</li> <li><i>Karel Čapek</i> by William E. Harkins, Columbia University Press, 1962.</li> <li><i>Karel Čapek: In Pursuit of Truth, Tolerance and Trust</i> by Bohuslava R. Bradbrook, Sussex Academic Press, 1998, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1898723850" title="Special:BookSources/1898723850">1898723850</a>.</li> <li><i>Karel Čapek: Life and Work</i> by Ivan Klíma, Catbird Press, 2002, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0945774532" title="Special:BookSources/0945774532">0945774532</a>. Translation from the Czech by Norma Comrada of <i>Velký věk chce mít též velké mordy: Život a dílo Karla Čapka</i>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Karel_%C4%8Capek&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 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