56 Czech translators

Daniel Adam z Veleslavína, literally translated Daniel Adam of Veleslavín,, was a Czech lexicographer, publisher, translator, and writer.

Friedrich Adler was a Bohemian-Austrian jurist, translator and writer of Jewish origin, writing in German language.

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.

Jan František Beckovský, was a Czech historian, writer, translator, and priest.

Jan Blahoslav was a Czech humanistic writer, poet, translator, etymologist, hymnographer, grammarian, music theorist and composer. He was a Unity of the Brethren bishop, and translated the New Testament into Czech in 1564. This was incorporated into the Bible of Kralice.

Ruth Bondy was a Czech-Israeli journalist and translator. Bondy was a Holocaust survivor who wrote for the Israeli newspaper Davar and translated books written in Czech to Hebrew. She was awarded the Sokolov Award in 1987 and the Tchernichovsky Prize in 2014.

Petr Borkovec is a Czech poet, translator and journalist.

Adolf Čech was a Czech conductor, who premiered a number of significant works by Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Zdeněk Fibich and other Czech composers. He also led the first performances outside Russia of two operas by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the Czech premieres of seven operettas by Jacques Offenbach. He was also a bass singer and a translator of opera librettos.

František Ladislav Čelakovský was a Czech poet, translator, linguist, and literary critic. He was a major figure in the Czech “national revival”. His most notable works are Ohlas písní ruských and Ohlas písní českých.

Jiří Dědeček is a Czech musician, songwriter, poet, translator, writer and author of numerous radio and television programs.

Radka Denemarková is a Czech novelist, dramatist, TV screenplay writer, translator, essayist.

Luboš Dobrovský was a Czech journalist and politician, who served as Czechoslovak Minister of Defence.

Frantisek Doucha was one of the most famous Czech literary translators and writers. He was among the most prolific translators of the century, translating works from 14 different languages. His name is often associated with many Shakespearian translations into the Czech language. He lived in Petrovice.

Pavel Eisner, also known as Paul Eisner and under the pseudonym Vincy Schwarze, was Czech-German linguist and translator and the author of many studies about Czech language. He is considered one of the most important Czech translators of all time and was said to be proficient in 12 languages - English, French, Icelandic, Italian, Hungarian, German, Norwegian, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Tibetan. He produced some of the earliest Czech language translations of Franz Kafka's work.

Josef Florian was a Czech book publisher and translator.

Emanuel Salomon von Friedberg-Mírohorský was a Czech painter, illustrator, translator, author and officer in the Austrian Army. He was also an advocate of vegetarianism and abstinence. "Mírohorský" was an artistic pseudonym that means the same thing as "Friedberg" in Czech.

František Fuka is a Czech computer programmer and musician. He currently works as a film translator, preparing English-language movies for Czech release. He is known also as a film critic, publicist and commentator.

Růžena Grebeníčková was a leading Czech literary historian and theorist, and translator.

Bohumila Grögerová was a Czech and Czechoslovak poet, experimental poet, and translator. She translated more than 180 writings from French and German in collaboration with her professional and life partner, Czech poet Josef Hiršal, who died in 2003. She also authored children's books and radio plays.

František Halas was one of the most significant Czech lyric poets of the 20th century, an essayist, and a translator.

Zdenka Hásková was a Czech translator, journalist and writer.

Zbyněk Hejda was a Czech poet, essayist and translator.

Prof. Martin Hilský is professor emeritus of English literature at Charles University in Prague and a translator.

Josef Holeček was a Czech writer of the realism and ruralism movements who wrote about his native South Bohemian Region. He was journalist and translator as well.

Josef Hora was a Czech poet, literary critic and journalist.

Milena Jesenská was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator.

Jan Kantůrek was a Czech translator of fantasy, science fiction, comics and westerns from English. His most known translations are Discworld by Terry Pratchett and books about Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard and his successors.

Edmund Kirsch was a Czech businessman and translator.

Jaroslav Kořán was a Czech translator, writer, screenwriter, and politician. A dissident and signatory of Charter 77 during Czechoslovakia's Communist era, Kořán translated over seven dozen books, mostly by American writers, from English into Czech, including major works by Kurt Vonnegut, Henry Miller, Roald Dahl, Ken Kesey, Charles Bukowski, John Kennedy Toole, and John Wyndham.

Eliška Krásnohorská was a Czech feminist author. She was introduced to literature and feminism by Karolína Světlá. She wrote works of lyric poetry and literary criticism, however, she is usually associated with children's literature and translations, including works by Pushkin, Mickiewicz and Byron.

Ludvík Kundera was a Czech writer, translator, poet, playwright, editor and literary historian. He was a notable exponent of the Czech avant-garde literature and a prolific translator of German authors. In 2007, he received the Medal of Merit for service to the Republic. In 2009, he was awarded the Jaroslav Seifert Award, presented by the Charter 77 Foundation. Kundera was a cousin of Czech-French writer Milan Kundera and nephew of the pianist and musicologist also named Ludvík Kundera.

Heda Margolius Kovály was a Czech writer and translator. She survived the Łódź ghetto and Auschwitz where her parents died. She later escaped whilst being marched to Bergen-Belsen to find that no one would take her in. Her husband was made a deputy minister in Czechoslovakia and he was then hanged as a traitor. As the wife of disgraced man she married again and she and her husband were treated badly. They left for the US in 1968 when the country was invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries. She published her biography in 1973. She and her husband did not return to her homeland until 1996.

Daniel Micka is a Czech writer and translator from English and French into Czech.

MUDr. Jaroslava Moserová, DrSc. was a Czech senator, ambassador, presidential candidate, doctor, and translator.

Vítězslav Nezval was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the twentieth century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechoslovakia.

Ivan Olbracht, born Kamil Zeman was a Czech writer, journalist and translator of German prose.

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

Eduard Petiška was a Czech poet, translator, playwright and novelist, the author of many books for children and young people, and a translator and theorist of children's literature. He wrote over ninety books, which were translated to dozens of languages.

Sofie Podlipská, née Rottová was a Czech writer and the sister of Karolina Světlá. Sofie Podlipská mostly wrote historical novels, juvenile works, and feminist literature. She also had an interest in Theosophy and helped found the "American Ladies' Club." The name had no geographical meaning instead the word "American" was to designate it as modern and for progress. Her work emphasized motherhood and morality.

Antonín Přidal was a Czech translator from English, Spanish and French, and writer, journalist and university lecturer.

Ladislav Quis was a Czech writer, poet, lawyer, journalist, translator and critic; associated with the literary group, Ruchovci.

Josef Rauvolf is a Czech translator, journalist and writer. He has translated many Beat Generation into Czech language, such as Junkie, Naked Lunch and Queer by William S. Burroughs and Visions of Cody, The Dharma Bums and Good Blonde & Others by Jack Kerouac. He also translated Uptight about The Velvet Underground. He was awarded Josef Jungmann prize for his translation of Visions of Cody. In addition to his translation work, he also wrote a book about Czech singer-songwriter Jaromír Nohavica.

Grete Reiner was a Czech-German magazine editor and writer, who is notable for being the first translator of The Good Soldier Schwejk, the antimilitarist satirical novel by Jaroslav Hašek.

Václav Renč was a Czech poet, dramatist and translator. Like other Catholic ruralistic writers, his themes included God, traditions and the countryside.

Olga Richterová is a Czech linguist, translator and politician. Richterová is the vice-chairwoman of the Czech Pirate Party since January 2018 and a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic since the 2017 legislative election.

Sylvie Richterová is a Czech educator and writer living in Italy.

František Salzer was a Czechoslovak Theatre Director, Theatre Actor, Film Actor, University Professor and Translator.

Josef Škvorecký was a Czech-Canadian writer and publisher. He spent half of his life in Canada, publishing and supporting banned Czech literature during the communist era. Škvorecký was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1980. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country. Škvorecký's fiction deals with several themes: the horrors of totalitarianism and repression, the expatriate experience, and the miracle of jazz.

Josef Václav Sládek was a Czech poet, journalist and translator, member of the literary group Lumírovci (cs:Lumírovci), pioneer of children's poetry in Czech lands.

Antal Stašek, was a Czech writer and lawyer. He was born in the village of Stanový in the Jablonec nad Nisou District of northern Bohemia. From 1877, Stašek was a successful barrister in Semily. His work is mainly set in the area around the Krkonoše mountains that straddle the today's border between the Czech Republic and Poland. Stašek was heavily influenced by socialism and social justice and was perhaps the first Czech writer to work with these themes.

Jiří Stránský was a Czech author, playwright, translator, screenwriter, twice a political prisoner of the communist regime, and human rights advocate. He was the grandson of Czechoslovak politician Jan Malypetr.

František Sušil was a Moravian Roman Catholic priest most noted for his published collection of traditional Moravian folk music, Moravské národní písně, which contained 2091 songs and 2361 texts. Composers who have used Sušil's melodies include Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček, Vítězslav Novák and Bohuslav Martinů.

Karel Teige was a Czech modernist avant-garde artist, writer, critic and one of the most important figures of the 1920s and 1930s movement. He was a member of the Devětsil (Butterbur) movement in the 1920s and also worked as an editor and graphic designer for Devětsil's monthly magazine ReD. One of his major works on architecture theory is The Minimum Dwelling (1932).

Ludmila Vachtová was a Czech art historian, art critic, curator and translator. In the 1960s, she curated the Gallery on Charles Square and the Platýz Gallery. She lived in Switzerland since 1972.

Jaroslav Vrchlický was a Czech lyrical poet. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature eight times.

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