Petr Koura
Petr Koura (b. 1978) is a Czech historian and political scientist. He received the Jan Palach award for his book Podplukovnik Josef Balabán [Lieutenant-Colonel Josef Balabán], a hero of the resistance to Nazism. He is the author of numerous scientific and popular texts and a regular contributor to Czech public television and Czech public radio Český rozhlas.
They published Václav Havel and all those Czechoslovak writers banned by the communist regime. Forty years ago, Zdena and Josef Škvorecký created in Toronto one of the most important publishing houses of the Eastern European resistance.