Milena Jelinek was a Czech American screenwriter, playwright and teacher.
11 Facts About Milena Jelinek
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Milena Jelinek wrote the screenplay for the film Forgotten Light, which was awarded three Czech Lions in 1997.
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Milena Jelinek's name is associated with the golden generation of Czech filmmakers, known as Czech New Wave.
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Milena Jelinek was married to the late researcher Frederick Jelinek.
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Frederick Milena Jelinek emigrated from Czechoslovakia to the United States in 1949 in 1957 he visited Vienna as a participant of a professional conference.
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Milena Jelinek met and befriended Milena Tobolova during a meeting with the film director Milos Forman in a Prague cafe.
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In 1960, Frederick Milena Jelinek was proclaimed "persona non grata" in Czechoslovakia and his planned visits were banned permanently.
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Milena Jelinek already knew him from the school in Prague, and met him again at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
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Milena Jelinek is the author of the script for the play Adina, staged in 2007 in the Vinohrady Theatre, Prague.
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Milena Jelinek wrote the libretto for the opera Kafka's Women by Czech composer Jiri Kaderabek, first staged at the Cell Theater in New York City in 2013.
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Milena Jelinek died in New York on 15 April 2020 of complications from COVID-19, aged 84.