Josef Čapek
Czech Republic (1902—1983)Čapek began his career as a Cubist painter before turning to writing plays and short stories with his brother Karel. He is also credited with coining the word “robot”. As an author and illustrator of children’s literature, he created Povídání o Pejskovi a Kočičce. He also worked as a cartoonist for the Prague newspaper Lidové noviny. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1939, he was deported to several concentration camps, where he wrote the poems later published posthumously as Básně z koncentračního tábora. He died in 1945, shortly before the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
