Svatopluk_Turek
Svatopluk Turek (25 October 1900 in Hodslavice – 30 December 1972 in Zlín) was a Czechoslovak novelist, known under pen name T. Svatopluk.
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After studying arts at the university he worked as graphics designer in Baťa company in Zlín. He is most known for his book Botostroj (The Shoe Machine)[1] where he depicted the company as an inhuman mechanism destroying lives of people and its boss Tomáš Baťa as a dictator. The novel is written in very fast, expressive language.
Family of Tomáš Baťa sued for defamation and tried in various ways to stop publishing the book.