1. Michal Viewegh is the most published Czech author of all time, with over a million books sold.
15 Facts About Michal Viewegh
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Michal Viewegh was born in Prague on 31 March 1962.
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Michal Viewegh studied economics at the Prague University of Economics and Business, but dropped out.
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Michal Viewegh then completed a degree in Czech and in pedagogy at Charles University in the Philosophy department in 1988.
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Michal Viewegh has been married twice, first to Jaroslava Mackova, with whom he has one daughter, Michaela.
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On 12 December 2012, Michal Viewegh suffered a traumatic aorta rupture.
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Michal Viewegh has lived most of his life in Sazava, a village in central Bohemia.
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Michal Viewegh has published novels almost every spring since the late 1990s.
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Michal Viewegh sells around 50,000 copies per book and has sold over a million books total, making him the most published Czech author of all time.
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Since the ruptured aorta, Michal Viewegh has been much less prolific and successful as a writer.
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Michal Viewegh still suffers from short-term memory loss, lack of directional awareness, and depression.
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Michal Viewegh publishes at a much slower rate than before the injury.
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For years, Michal Viewegh has fought Czech tabloids in the court system, and criticized them publicly, accusing the tabloids of invading his privacy and of publishing false information about him.
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Michal Viewegh was unhappy as a writer under communism, but likes the liberties of post-communist Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.
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Michal Viewegh is opposed to right-wing former Czech president Vaclav Klaus.