Peter Hruby

Born in Prague on June 22, 1921, obtained his MA from Columbia University, New York City, and his PhD from the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva. From 1951 till 1957 worked for Radio Free Europe in Munich, Germany as Editor and Writer, and from 1957 until 1964 as Senior Editor and Writer in NYC. Beginning in 1965 for three years lectured and led seminars on the History of Western Civilizations, Comparative Government, Soviet Studies, International Law, and International Economics at the University of Maryland at its Overseas Divisions (Thule, Greenland; Bermuda; Argentia, New Foundland; Ismir, Turkey; Heidelberg, Bittburg, Ramstein, West Berlin, Germany; Peshawar, Pakistan). From 1971 till 1990 taught at several Australian University, mainly in Perth, Western Australia. From the year 2001 for six years at the Charles University in Prague lectured on "Aspects of 20th Century World Literature: Appeal and Failure of Communism". In scientific journals of several countries he published many studies and also several chapters in books edited by other authors. He himself published these books: Fools and Heroes: The Changing Role of Communist Intellectuals in Czechoslovakia (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1980). Daydreams and Nightmares: Czech Communist and Ex-Communist Literature 1917-1987 (NYC: Columbia University Press, 1990). Dangerous Dreamers: The Australian Anti-Democratic Left and Czechoslovak Agents (Bloomington: iUniverse, 2010).

Osudne iluze: Cesti spisovatele a komunismus 1917-1987 (Rychnov nad Kneznou: Jezek, 2000). With Pavel Kosatik and Zdenek Pousta, Rozchod: Rozhovory s ceskymi pounorovymi exulanty (Prague: Charles University, 2006). Nebezpecni snilci: Australska levice a Ceskoslovensko (Brno: Stilus, 2007)

Citizen of the USA, Australia, and Czech Republik, lives since 2007 in Annapolis, MD, USA.