Bohemian literature
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Bohemian literature is literature of Bohemians (also known as Czechs, in Bohemian Češi or Čechové) and also literature written in Bohemia in other languages (e.g. Latin, German, Greek, Hebrew or Russian).
The Bohemian language is a western-slavonic language. Slovak and Upper-Sorabian languages (national minority in Saxonia, part of Germany) are quite similar to the Bohemian language and people of those three languages can understand each other without translation.
Bohemia is a short name for Bohemian Crown (or Bohemian Lands) which includes Bohemia proper (in Bohemian Čechy), Moravia (in B. Morava) and Bohemian part of Silesia (in B. Slezsko). Today's official English name of Bohemia is the Czech Republic.
[edit] Chronological table of most important Bohemian writers
[edit] Middleages (from 9th century to renaissance)
- Christianus monachus
- Cosmas of Prague
- Dalimil
- Johannes von Saaz
- Smil Flaska z Pardubic
[edit] Renaissance and Barocque writers
- Hynek z Podebrad
- Mikulas Dacicky z Heslova
- Jan Amos Komenský
- Bohuslav Balbin
- Ondrej de Waldt
[edit] Modern Bohemian literature (from 1750 to 1860)
- Josef Dobrovský
- Jan Jeník z Bratřic
- Josef Jungmann
- František Čelakovský
- Josef Kajetán Tyl
- Karel Hynek Mácha
- František Palacký
- Božena Němcová
- Marie Ebnerova z Eschenbachu
[edit] Time of various literary styles (from 1860 to 1914)
- Jan Neruda
- Karolina Světlá
- Jakub Arbes
- Siegfried Kapper
- Svatopluk Čech
- Jaroslav Vrchlický
- Alois Jirásek
- Zikmund Winter
- Karel Hlaváček
- Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
- František Gellner
[edit] Literature between and in World Wars (from 1914 to 1945)
- Franz Kafka
- Vladislav Vančura
- Bohuslav Reynek
- Jakub Deml
- Hermann Grab
- František Halas
- Vladimír Holan
- Jiří Wolker
- Franz Werfel
- Karel Čapek
- Josef Čapek
- Jiří Mahen
- Jan Zahradníček
- Egon Hostovsky
- Ferdinand Peroutka
- Jaroslav Seifert
- Paul Leppin
- Josef Vachal
- Hermann Ungar
- Jaroslav Hašek
- Jan Čep
- Egon Erwin Kisch
- Gustav Leutelt
[edit] Communist era (from 1945/1948 to 1989)
- Jan Zabrana
- Bohumil Hrabal
- Josef Jedlička
- Libuše Moniková
- Milan Kundera
- Václav Havel
- Josef Škvorecký
- Ludvík Vaculík
- Jiří Gruša
- Ota Filip
- Jiří Kratochvil
- Ota Pavel
- Miroslav Holub
- Jan Křesadlo
- Ivan Klíma
- Jan Skácel
- Jaroslav Foglar
- Vladimír Páral