Michal AjvazW
Michal Ajvaz

Michal Ajvaz is a Czech novelist, poet and translator, an exponent of the literary style known as magic realism.

Jindřich Šimon BaarW
Jindřich Šimon Baar

Jindřich Šimon Baar Czech pronunciation (help·info) was a Czech Catholic priest and writer, realist, author of the so-called country prose. He joined the Czech Catholic modern style, but later severed the ties with that movement. As writer, he emphasized traditional moral values of the countryside.

Jan BalabánW
Jan Balabán

Jan Balabán was a Czech writer, journalist, and translator. He was considered an existentialist whose works often dealt with the wretched and desperate aspects of the human condition.

Eduard BassW
Eduard Bass

Eduard Bass, born Eduard Schmidt, was a Czech prose writer, journalist, singer, and actor.

Alexandra BerkováW
Alexandra Berková

Alexandra Berková was a Czech writer and educator.

Avigdor DaganW
Avigdor Dagan

Avigdor Dagan was an Czech and later Israeli writer, playwright, literary translator and diplomat. Prior to adopting the Hebraic name in 1955, his name was Viktor Fischl, Dagan, being related to the Hebrew word dag (fish), an approximate translation of Fischl as a diminutive of "fish".

Ota FilipW
Ota Filip

Ota Filip was a Czech novelist and journalist. He wrote in both German and Czech.

František FlosW
František Flos

František Flos was a Czech writer. His novel, Lovci orchidejí, was published in 1920.

Luděk FrýbortW
Luděk Frýbort

Luděk Frýbort is a writer and author living in Hanover, Germany.

Adam GeorgievW
Adam Georgiev

Adam Georgiev is a Czech poet and author of prose. He is most known as an author of gay literature; in 2010 he was reported by Czech Television to be the highest-selling gay author in the country.

Jiří HájíčekW
Jiří Hájíček

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 Litera prize for prose with his novel Selský baroko. In the European Society of Authors' 2013 Finnegan's List, Jaroslav Rudiš selected Hájíček's 2012 novel Rybí krev to be more widely translated into European languages. Rybí krev also won the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year for 2013. In 2016, his novel Zloději zelených koní was adapted into a film by Dan Wlodarczyk.

Patrik HartlW
Patrik Hartl

Patrik Hartl is a contemporary Czech novelist, playwright and theatre director.

Jaroslav HašekW
Jaroslav Hašek

Jaroslav Hašek was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist. He is best known for his novel The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures. The novel has been translated into about 60 languages, making it the most translated novel in Czech literature.

Ignát HerrmannW
Ignát Herrmann

Ignát Herrmann was a Czech novelist, satirist and editor. He sometimes used the pseudonym Vojta Machatý, Švanda.

Petra HůlováW
Petra Hůlová

Petra Hůlová is a Czech writer.

Václav KaplickýW
Václav Kaplický

Václav Kaplický was a Czech writer, journalist and epic poet. He is most known as an author of historical fiction. Kaplický studied at Gymnasium in Tábor, finishing in 1914. In 1915 he was sent to the front in Galicia where he was taken captive (1916). Later he joined the Czechoslovak Legion. For his political opinions he was imprisoned by the legion and labeled as a traitor. After returning to Czechoslovakia in 1921 he worked in civil service. During the period 1922–1950, Kaplický worked in several publishing houses associated with the Czechoslovak Socialist Party. From 1950 he dedicated his time solely to writing.

Vladimír KörnerW
Vladimír Körner

Vladimír Körner is a Czech novelist and screenwriter. His novels were also adapted into screenplays for about 20 films.

Jan KřesadloW
Jan Křesadlo

Václav Jaroslav Karel Pinkava, better known by his pen name Jan Křesadlo, was a Czech psychologist who was also a prizewinning novelist and poet.

Paul LeppinW
Paul Leppin

Paul Leppin was a 20th-century Bohemian writer of German language, who was born and lived in Prague.

Herbert LomW
Herbert Lom

Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru, known professionally as Herbert Lom, was a Czech–English actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more than 60 years, he appeared in character roles, often portraying criminals or villains early in his career and professional men in later years.

Marie MajerováW
Marie Majerová

Marie Majerová was a Czech writer and translator.

Bohumil HrabalW
Bohumil Hrabal

Bohumil Hrabal was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century.

Libuše MoníkováW
Libuše Moníková

Libuše Moníková was a Czech writer, publishing in the German language. In 1968, following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, she left to Western Germany.

Simona MonyováW
Simona Monyová

Simona Monyová was a Czech novelist. She wrote more than 20 books and was a bestselling author in the Czech Republic. On 3 August 2011 she was found dead in her house. The police suspected her husband, Boris Ingr, was the murderer, as there was a history of domestic abuse. He was later convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison. The sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2013.

Gustav Pfleger MoravskýW
Gustav Pfleger Moravský

Gustav Pfleger Moravský was a Czech novelist, poet and dramatist. He is generally associated with the Májovci, but was not actually a member of that group.

David Jan NovotnýW
David Jan Novotný

David Jan Novotný is a Czech novelist, scriptwriter and professor of dramaturgy.

Patrik OuředníkW
Patrik Ouředník

Patrik Ouředník is a Czech author and translator, living in France.

Iva PekárkováW
Iva Pekárková

Iva Pekárková is a Czechoslovakia-born author who started writing and publishing novels after moving to New York City. Her novels are inspired by her various life experiences and she writes openly about sexuality, making her controversial in her native country. Most of her novels are originally written in Czech.

Lenka ProcházkováW
Lenka Procházková

Lenka Procházková is a Czech writer.

Marie PujmanováW
Marie Pujmanová

Marie Pujmanová was a Czech poet and novelist.

Karel Václav RaisW
Karel Václav Rais

Karel Václav Rais was a Czech realist novelist, author of the so-called country prose, numerous books for youth and children, and several poems.

Karel SchulzW
Karel Schulz

Karel Schulz was a Czech novelist, theatre critic, poet and short story writer, whose best known work is the historical novel Stone and Pain.

Petra SoukupováW
Petra Soukupová

Petra Soukupová is contemporary Czech author, playwright, and screenwriter.

Petr StančíkW
Petr Stančík

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

Miloslav ŠvandrlíkW
Miloslav Švandrlík

Miloslav Švandrlík was a Czech writer and humourist. He also used the pseudonym Roman Kefalín.

Andrzej TichýW
Andrzej Tichý

Andrzej Tichý is a Czech-Polish writer who has lived in Malmö, Sweden since 1981. He has written several novels and is regarded as one of the most important novelists of his generation. He has been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize and the August Prize for Best Fiction Book of the Year. His fifth novel, Wretchedness (2020) published by And Other Stories, is his first to be translated into English and focuses on immigrants and the migrant crisis in Sweden. Speaking on the book with The Guardian, Tichý said: ‘From the outside, Sweden was this paradise. But it was never actually true’.

Jáchym TopolW
Jáchym Topol

Jáchym Topol is a Czech poet, novelist, musician and journalist who became a laureate of the State Prize for Literature in October 2017 for his novel Sensitive Man.

Kateřina TučkováW
Kateřina Tučková

Kateřina Tučková is a Czech novelist and curator. She is best known as the author of Žítkovské bohyně, a Czech bestseller translated into 16 languages.

Miloš UrbanW
Miloš Urban

Miloš Urban is a Czech novelist and horror writer, known as the "dark knight of Czech literature". He is best known for his 1999 novel Sedmikostelí, a Gothic crime horror set in Prague, which was translated into 11 languages. He is also a translator, and has translated works by authors including Isaac Bashevis Singer and Julian Barnes into Czech. He was the winner of the 2002 Magnesia Litera prize for prose writing for his 2001 novel Hastrman, as well as the 1996 Mladá fronta prize for his translation of Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot. As well as the Czech Republic, Urban's books have found considerable commercial success in Spanish-speaking countries.

Sára VybíralováW
Sára Vybíralová

Sára Vybíralová is a Czech writer, translator from French, and editor.

David ZábranskýW
David Zábranský

David Zábranský is an award-winning Czech writer.

Tomáš ZmeškalW
Tomáš Zmeškal

Tomáš Zmeškal is a Czech writer. He was born in Prague to a Congolese father and a Czech mother. In 1987, he left the then-Czechoslovakia to live in London, where he studied English language and literature at King's College. He returned after the collapse of communism. He taught at Charles University for a while, and currently teaches in high school.

Anna ZonováW
Anna Zonová

Anna Zonová is a Czech writer.