Bohemian literature

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 users 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.

Contents

Chronological table of most important Bohemian writers

Middleages (from 9th century to renaissance)

Renaissance and Barocque writers

Modern Bohemian literature (from 1750 to 1860)

Time of various literary styles (from 1860 to 1914)

Literature between and in World Wars (from 1914 to 1945)

Communist era (from 1945/1948 to 1989)

Contemporary literature (after 1990)