Diary of One Who Vanished

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."

Leos Janacek (1854-1928) was a Czech composer, musicologist, and folklorist who pioneered the adaptation of regional folk tunes into modern musical compositions. His most famous pieces include Jenufa, The Cunning Little Vixen, and his adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's From the House of the Dead.

Ozef Kalda is the pseudonym of Josef Kalda (1871-1921), who was a prolific, genre-crossing writer from the Moravian Wallachia region of the Czech Republic. His best-known works include the novel Ogan [The Lads] and the story collection Jalovinky [Idle Talk].