Michal Viewegh

Michal Viewegh (born March 31, 1962, Prague) is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, variously successful irony as well as attempts at deeper meaningfulness; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans.

His books, since the late 1990s published every spring, usually sell about 50,000 copies each, bringing him an upper-high-class income unparalleled among Czech writers. By his own boastful admissions, his royalties from a successful book are equal to roughly 8 years of an average Czech salary. His 2004 income was CZK four million. Viewegh likes to point out this success with readers, as well as the fact that his books have been translated to several languages and made into films, since he fell out of favor with critics in the mid-1990s, which sentiment he heartily reciprocated in his following books.

Viewegh is a political adversary of the former Czech president Václav Klaus. In some of his recent novels this attitude has been strongly and pointedly manifested.

Michal Áč

Michal Áč (born 17 May 1985) is a Slovak football defender who is currently plays for FK Janíkovce.

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Michal

Michal (/mᵻˈxɑːl/; Hebrew: מיכל‎  [miˈχal]) was a daughter of Saul, king of Israel, who loved and became the first wife of David, (1 Samuel 18:20-27) who later became king of Judah, and later still of the united Kingdom of Israel.

Michal in the Bible

Their story is recorded in the Book of Samuel. It is recorded that she chose the welfare of David over the wishes of her father. When Saul's messengers were searching for David in order to kill him, Michal secretly sent them away while pretending he was ill and laid up in bed. She let David down through a window and hid teraphim in his bed as a ruse. (1 Samuel 19:11-17)

Whilst David was hiding for his life, Saul gave Michal as a wife to Palti, son of Laish, and David took several other wives, including Abigail. (1 Samuel 25:43-44) Later when David became king of Judah and Ish-bosheth Michal's brother (and Saul's son) was king of Israel, David demanded her return to him, in return for peace between them. This Ish-bosheth did, despite the public protests of Palti.

Michal (singer)

Michal (Michał Kwiatkowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmixau kvʲatˈkɔfski]), born 12 November 1983) is a Polish singer. In France, he is better known as Michal.

Kwiatkowski was born and raised in Gorzów Wielkopolski. In 2001, Michał won a Polish karaoke show Szansa na sukces (Shot at the Top). After this success, he left Poland and started his studies in France. In 2003, he competed in the third series of the popular show Star Academy. His popularity increased rapidly. He gained second place, but winner Elodie Frégé shared the victory with him.

From September 2009 he was a member of X edition in Dancing with the Stars in Poland. His partner was Janja Lesar. They were eliminated in 11th episode, placing third.

Since 2011, he has been involved in the new project "Self Concept", having released songs like "Too Strange" and "You Are the Last".

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