About Radek John
Born 1954. Radek John is a Czech screenwriter, journalist, politician and writer.
Radek John (; born 6 December 1954) is a Czech journalist, writer, screenwriter and politician who served as the Minister of Interior from 2010 to 2011 and as Leader of the Public Affairs party from 2009 to 2013. His novel Memento is the first book examining the drug problem in the context of the former communist Czechoslovakia. The novel was translated into ten languages.
Early life To 1979 he studied screenwriting and graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). From 1980 till 1993 he worked as an editor of Mladý Svět magazine. He then worked as a screenwriter at Barrandov Film Studios.
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Czech journalist and politician
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Radek John was born on 6 December 1954 in Prague.
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Radek John is a screenwriter, journalist, politician and writer.
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Radek John is Czech.
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