{"product_id":"meetings-with-remarkable-people","title":"Meetings with Remarkable People","description":"\u003cp\u003eVoyen Koreis was born at Pitt Street, near Kensington Palace in London. His father, Dalibor Korejs, was a Czech diplomat. He fought as a Major with the Allied Armies, after the war he was named Consul General in Berlin, where he died in 1950. Voyen grew up in Czechoslovakia. During compulsory army service he was a singer with the Army Entertainment Unit, where he met with a number of future personalities of the Czech cultural scene. After the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact Armies in 1968 he decided to move to Great Britain.With his Czech-born wife he migrated to Australia in 1973 and has since been living in Brisbane, Queensland. In Australia he made a living first as a storeman, salesman, antiquarian bookseller, interpreter and translator, visual artist, publisher. He wrote and published nearly twenty books, both in English and in Czech, as well as literary essays, blogs and radio programmes. More details on Wikipedia: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voyen_Koreis\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44305706221729,"sku":null,"price":39.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1kmrnrk8-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1714884002","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/meetings-with-remarkable-people","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}