List of Czech writers

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Below is an alphabetical list of famous Czech writers.

[edit] A

• 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

[edit] B

• 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

[edit] C

• Josef Čapek
• Karel Čapek
• Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod
• Svatopluk Čech
• František Čelakovský (1799 – 1852), poet and translator
• Petr Chelčický (1390 – 1460)

[edit] D

• 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

[edit] E

• Karel Jaromír Erben

[edit] F

• Smil Flaška z Pardubic
• Jaroslav Foglar
• Marie Formáčková
• Zdena Frýbová
• Norbert Frýd
• Julius Fučík
• Ladislav Fuks

[edit] G

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

[edit] H

• 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

[edit] I

[edit] J

• Milena Jesenská (1896 – 1944), journalist, writer, and translator
• Alois Jirásek
• Josef Jungmann (1773 – 1847), lexicographer, linguist, translator, and poet

[edit] K

• Franz Kafka
• Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic
• Václav Kliment Klicpera (1792 – 1859), playwright
• Václav František Kocmánek
• Pavel Kohout
• Kolda z Koldic
• Jan Kollár (1793 – 1852), Slovak poet
• Viktorin Kornel ze Všehrd, translator and lawyer
• Kosmas
• Jan Amos Komenský (1592 – 1670)
• Eliška Krásnohorská
• Milan Kundera
• Jaroslav Kuták
• Pavel Kyrmezer, Slovak playwright

[edit] L

• Květa Legátová
• Věra Linhartová
• Arnošt Lustig
• Ondra Lysohorsky

[edit] M

• Jiří Mahen
• Karel Hynek Mácha
• Josef Svatopluk Machar
• Marie Majerová
• Radek Malý (born 1977), poet and translator
• Adam Michna z Otradovic, composer and organ player

[edit] N

• Ondřej Neff
• Vladimír Neff
• Božena Němcová
• Jan Neruda
• Vítězslav Nezval
• Stanislav Kostka Neumann
• Arne Novák
• Tereza Nováková

[edit] O

• Ivan Olbracht

[edit] P

• 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

[edit] Q

• Ladislav Quis

[edit] R

• 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)

[edit] S

• Petr Šabach
• Pavel Josef Šafařík (1795 – 1861), Slovak Slavicist, literary historian, and poet
• František Xaver Šalda
• Prokop František Šedivý (1764 – c. 1810), playwright, actor, and translator of the National Revival era
• Karol Sidon
• Jan Skácel
• Josef Škvorecký
• Ladislav Smoček (born 1932), playwright and theater director
• Antonín Sova (1864 – 1928), Impressionist and Symbolist poet
• Fráňa Šrámek (1877 – 1952), anarchist, impressionist, and vitalist, poet, novelist, and dramatist
• Antal Stašek
• Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek (1783 – 1844), playwright
• Tomáš Štítný ze Štítného
• Karolína Světlá

[edit] T

• Karel Teige (1900 – 1951), art critic, journalist, and translator
• Karel Ignác Thám (1763 – 1816), writer and translator
• Václav Thám (1765 – c. 1816), actor and writer
• Josef Toman
• Karel Toman
• Jáchym Topol
• Václav Beneš Třebízský

[edit] U

• Ota Ulč (born 1932), Czech-American author and columnist

[edit] V

• Ludvík Vaculík
• Edvard Valenta
• Vladislav Vančura
• Karel Vaněk
• Vavřinec z Březové
• Jaroslav Vrchlický

[edit] W

• Jiří Weil
• Richard Weiner
• Jiří Weiss
• Michal Viewegh
• Zikmund Winter
• Jiří Wolker

[edit] Z

• Petr Zelenka (born 1967), playwright and film director