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Did Bohumil Hrabal die a natural death?

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Bohumil Hrabal did not die a natural death; he committed suicide by jumping out of a window of a Prague hospital on February 3, 1997, at the age of 82. The author had a history of depression and had made previous suicide attempts. His death devastated the Czech literary world and left a significant gap in Czech literature.
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