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His brother - Josef Čapek - was also a writer (and a painter):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Čapek

He wrote a wonderful illustrated children's book about cat and dog living together:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19431013-all-about-doggi...

https://web2.mlp.cz/koweb/00/04/37/75/99/povidani_o_pejskovi... (originally published in 1929, so it's public domain, Czech version, but at least you can check the illustrations)

Sometimes both brothers wrote together:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Čapek

Josef was actually the one who came up with the word "robot":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Čapek#Etymology_of_robot

parent bd 8 years ago

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