Czech author Josef Skvorecky dies at 87

PRAGUE (AP)

Josef Skvorecky

, a Czech outcast and author who published works by

Vaclav Havel

and

Milan Kundera

that had been criminialized by

communist authorities

in their

native country

, has died. He was 87.

Skvorecky's mother

Zdena Salivarova

told a

Czech CTK

news group he died Tuesday in Toronto. The integrate changed to

Canada

after a 1968 Soviet-led advance of then-Czechoslovakia that dejected a magnanimous reforms famous as a Prague Spring.

He was innate Sept 27, 1924 in Nachod in northern Czechoslovakia, and went on to write novels, s uch as "The Engineer of Human Souls," that humorously prisoner a stupidity of a total regime.

He and Salivarova determined '68 Publishers in Canada in 1971 to recover some-more than 200 books by banished Czech authors and those criminialized by a communists.

(news.yahoo.com)