1. Jan Neruda (1834)

Czech Writer

A Czech Realist poet, author, and journalist associated with the Majovci (May School) literary group, he is known for works such as Cemetery Flowers and Book of Verses. His 1877...

2. Jaroslav Seifert (1901)

Czech Writer

A Czech author, poet, and journalist, he was the 1984 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Over the course of his career, he published more than thirty works of...

3. Ilse Weber (1903)

Czech Writer

Ilse Weber née Herlinger was born in Witkowitz near Mährisch-Ostrau. A Jewish poet she wrote in German most notably songs and theater pieces for Jewish children. She married Willi Weber...

4. Antonín Jaroslav Liehm (1924)

Czech Writer

Antonín Jaroslav Liehm is a Czech-born writer publisher translator and scholar residing in Paris. In 1984 Antonín J. Liehm founded the European culture magazine Lettre International. The French version ceased...

5. Eva Kantůrková (Unknow)

Czech Writer

Eva Kantůrková is a Czech author and screenwriter. A communist in her early years she joined the Czech dissident movement after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and was one of...

6. Erica Pedretti (1930)

Czech Writer

Erica Pedretti née Schefter is a Swiss author and artist. Born in northern Moravia Pedretti went to Switzerland in 1945. She studied art and has achieved a career as a...

7. Jan Těsnohlídek (1987)

Czech Writer

Jan Těsnohlídek is a Czech poet and editor. He lives in Prague and in Krucemburk.

8. Ivan Klíma (1931)

Czech Writer

Ivan Klíma is a Czech novelist and playwright. He has received the Magnesia Litera Award and the Franz Kafka Prize among other honors.

9. Jiří Stránský (1931)

Czech Writer

Jiří Stránský is a Czech author playwright translator former political prisoner of the communist regime and human rights advocate. He is grandson of Czechoslovakian politician Jan Malypetr. In 1953 he...

10. Alexej Pludek (1923)

Czech Writer

Alexej Pludek was a Czech writer. He was born in Prostějov on the 29th January 1923. In 1950 his play Případ Modrá Voda was shown on stage of stage D50.

11. Stanislava Nopova (1953)

Czech Writer

Stanislava Nopova is a Czech author poet and publisher.

12. Radek John (1954)

Czech Writer

Radek John is a Czech journalist writer screenwriter and politician current chairman of the political party Public Affairs. His novel Memento is the first book examining the drug problem in...

13. Jáchym Topol (1962)

Czech Writer

Jáchym Topol is a Czech writer.

14. Jiří Hájíček (1967)

Czech Writer

Jiří Hájíček is a contemporary South Bohemian Czech writer. He started writing poetry in the 1980s in a youth poetry programme hosted by Mirek Kovářík. He won the 2006 Magnesia...

15. Adam Georgiev (1980)

Czech Writer

Adam Georgiev is a Czech poet and author of prose. He is most known as an author of homosexual prose; in 2010 he was declared by Czech Television to be...

16. Roman Sikora (1970)

Czech Writer

Roman Sikora is a contemporary Czech playwright and journalist. He grew up in the town of Třinec in eastern Czech Republic where he worked in the local steel plant Třinec...

17. Petr Maděra (1970)

Czech Writer

Petr Maděra is a Czech poet and novelist. After graduating from a grammar school he studied landscape engineering at the Agricultural College in Prague. He specialised mainly in landscape architecture...

18. Josef Hiršal (1920)

Czech Writer

Josef Hiršal was a Czech author poet and novelist. Hiršal was widely regarded as one of the most important Czech authors of experimental poetry; after early surrealistic writings he made...

19. Vojtěch Kučera (1975)

Czech Writer

Vojtěch Kučera is a Czech poet and literary editor. He studied geography at the Faculty of Science of the Masaryk University in Brno. He is a longtime editor-in-chief of the...

20. Zdeněk Kalista (1900)

Czech Writer

Zdeněk Kalista was a Czech historian poet literary critic and editor.

21. Óndra Łysohorsky (1905)

Czech Writer

Óndra Łysohorsky was the pseudonym of Ervín Goj a Czech poet of Silesian origin and awareness. He is known for his works written in Lach language which was systematized and...

22. Josef Hora (1891)

Czech Writer

Josef Hora was a Czech poet.

23. Jiří Mahen (1882)

Czech Writer

Jiří Mahen was a Czech novelist playwright and essayist.

24. Bohdan Chlíbec (1963)

Czech Writer

Bohdan Chlíbec is a Czech poet. He lives in Prague since 1971. H works as a librarian at Clementinum. Collection of his poems under the title Zimní dvůr was awarded...

25. Viola Fischerová (1935)

Czech Writer

Viola Fischerová was a Czech poet and translator.

26. Bohdan Kaminský (1859)

Czech Writer

Bohdan Kaminský was a Czech poet and translator. Kaminský was originally a wood-carver. In the years 1878-82 he studied arts in Prague. During his life Kaminský frequently travelled abroad.

27. Jiří Orten (1919)

Czech Writer

Jiří Orten was a Czech poet. His work was influenced by surrealism and folklore. His first book of poems Čítanka jaro came out in 1939. He spent time in Paris...

28. Josef Rumler (1922)

Czech Writer

Josef Rumler was a Czech poet literary critic historian editor and translator from Polish language and to Esperanto.

29. Petr Stančík (1968)

Czech Writer

Petr Stančík is a Czech author poet novelist essayist dramatist and copywriter.

30. Jindřich Šimon Baar (1869)

Czech Writer

Jindřich Šimon Baar About this sound Czech pronunciation was a Czech Catholic priest and writer realist author of the so-called country prose. He joined the Czech Catholic modern style but...

31. Josef Knap (1900)

Czech Writer

Josef Knap was a Czech writer poet and literary critic. Born in Podůlší by Jičín Knap studied at the Classical Grammar school until 1919. He graduated from the College of...

32. Růžena Jesenská (1863)

Czech Writer

Růžena Jesenská decadent writer epigone of Julius Zeyer. She was a member of the Czech Academy of Sciences sister of Marie Jesenská and aunt of writer Milena Jesenská. Růžena Jesenská...

33. Boleslav Jablonský (1813)

Czech Writer

Boleslav Jablonský was a Czech poet. Although Jablonský studied theology he was one of the most popular Czech poets in 19th century whose songs found international renown. One of...

34. Petr Bezruč (1867)

Czech Writer

Petr Bezruč was the pseudonym of Vladimír Vašek a Czech poet and short story writer who was associated with the region of Austrian Silesia. Bezruč was born in Opava and...

35. Jiřina Hauková (1919)

Czech Writer

Jiřina Hauková was a Czech poet and translator. She was a member of the Group 42 together with her husband Jindřich Chalupecký.

36. Vratislav Effenberger (1923)

Czech Writer

Vratislav Effenberger was a Czech literature theoretician.

37. Karla Erbová (1933)

Czech Writer

Karla Erbová is a contemporary Czech poet prose writer and journalist. Many of her writings are historical or mythological in subject matter often including works on Ancient Greece.

38. Vladimír Holan (1905)

Czech Writer

Vladimír Holan was a Czech poet famous for employing obscure language dark topics and pessimist views in his poems. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in the late 1960s....

39. Josef Škvorecký (1924)

Czech Writer

Josef Škvorecký CM was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher who spent much of his life in Canada. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and...

40. Josef Kajetán Tyl (1808)

Czech Writer

Josef Kajetán Tyl was a significant Czech dramatist writer and actor. He was a notable figure of the Czech National Revival movement and is best known as the author of...

41. Fráňa Šrámek (1877)

Czech Writer

áňa Šrámek was a Czech anarchist impressionist and vitalist poet novelist and playwright. In 1885 his family relocated to Písek where he lived for a long time and much of...

42. Dominika Dery (1975)

Czech Writer

Dominika Dery also known as Dominika Furmanová is a Czech journalist and writer having published works of poetry drama and a memoir. The Twelve Little Cakes which chronicles her life...

43. Ivan Blatný (1919)

Czech Writer

Ivan Blatný Czech: was a Czech poet and a member of Skupina 42.

44. Karel Schulz (1899)

Czech Writer

Karel Schulz was a Czech writer and novelist whose most famous work is the historical novel Kámen a bolest. During the communist era in Czechoslovakia he was not very popular...

45. Paul Leppin (1878)

Czech Writer

Paul Leppin was a 20th-century Bohemian writer of German language who was born and lived in Prague. Although he wrote in German he was in close contact with Czech literature....

46. Marie Dušková (1903)

Czech Writer

Marie Dušková was a Czech poet. She was a participant of Pracující do literatury and soon became known as an example of working-class literature of the 1950s of the 20th...

47. Edvard Valenta (1901)

Czech Writer

Edvard Valenta was a Czech journalist and writer. Valenta was born into a family of a medical doctor. After secondary school he started to study at a technical university but...

48. Ivan Diviš (1924)

Czech Writer

Ivan Diviš was a significant Czech poet and essayist of the 2nd half of the 20th century.

49. Václav Hrabě (1940)

Czech Writer

Václav Hrabě was a Czech poet and writer and the most important member of the Beat Generation in former Czechoslovakia.

50. Miloslav Topinka (1945)

Czech Writer

Miloslav Topinka is a Czech poet. He graduated from psychology at the Charles University. In 1968 he took part in the student Expedition Lambaréné as the expedition's psychologist. In 1969...