List of Czech writers

Below is an alphabetical list of famous Czech novelists, poets, and playwrights.

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Daniel Adam z Veleslavína (1546 – 1599), lexicographer, publisher, translator, and writer
Michal Ajvaz (born 1949), novelist and poet, magic realist
Karel Slavoj Amerling, also known as Karl Slavomil Amerling or Slavoj Strnad Klatovský (1807 – 1884), teacher, writer, and philosopher
Hana Andronikova (born 1967), writer
Jakub Arbes (1840 – 1914), writer and journalist, realist
Ludvík Aškenazy (1921 – 1986), writer and journalist
Josef Augusta (1903 – 1968), paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer

Jindřich Šimon Baar (1869 – 1925), Catholic priest and writer, realist, author of the so-called country prose
Bohuslav Balbín (1621 – 1688), writer and Jesuit
Josef Barák (1833 – 1883), politician, journalist, and poet, member of the májovci literary group
Eduard Bass (1888 – 1946), writer, journalist, singer, and actor
Jan František Beckovský (1658 – 1725), writer, historian, translator, and priest
Vavřinec Benedikt z Nudožer (1555 – 1615), mathematician, teacher, poet, translator, and philologist of Slovak origin, author of a Czech grammar
Petr Bezruč (1867 – 1958), poet and writer
Konstantin Biebl (1898 – 1951), poet
Jan Blahoslav (1523 – 1571), humanistic writer and composer
Ivan Blatný (1919 – 1990), poet, member of Skupina 42 (Group 42)
Egon Bondy (born 1930), philosopher, writer, and poet, the main personality of the Prague underground
Arthur Breisky (1885 – 1910), writer, translator, playwright
Bedřich Bridel (1619 – 1680), baroque writer, poet, and missionary
Max Brod (1884 – 1968), Jewish German-speaking author, composer, and journalist
Otokar Březina (1868 – 1929), Symbolist poet and essayist

Jakub Deml
Dominika Dery (born 1975), poet, playwright, and memoirist, former ballet dancer
Ivan Diviš (1924 – 1999), significant poet and essayist of the 2nd half of the 20th century
Gelasius Dobner (1719 – 1790), historian
Josef Dobrovský (1753 – 1829), linguist, lexicographer, and literary historian
Jan Drabek
Jan Drda
Jaroslav Durych
Viktor Dyk

Jarmila Glazarová
František Gellner
Jiří Gruša (born 1938), poet, prose writer, translator, literary critic, and politician

Václav Hájek z Libočan
František Halas
Vítězslav Hálek
Jaroslav Hašek
Václav Havel
Karel Havlíček Borovský
Iva Hercíková
Ignát Hermann
Adolf Heyduk
Josef Hiršal, translator and poet
Karel Hlaváček
Vladimír Holan
Josef Holeček (1853 – 1929), South Bohemian writer, realist, author of the so-called country prose, and translator (Kalevala)
Josef Hora
Egon Hostovský
Bohumil Hrabal
Jan Hus

František Palacký (1798 – 1876), historian
František Martin Pelcl (1734 – 1801), historian and the 1st professor of the Czech language at the Prague university
Karel Ptáčník
Antonín Jaroslav Puchmajer
Marie Pujmanová
Přibík Pulkava z Radenína

Karel Václav Rais (1859 – 1926), realist novelist, author of the so-called country prose, numerous books for youth and children, and several poems
Jaroslav Rudiš (born 1972)