List of Czech writers

A

• Daniel Adam z Veleslavína, lexicographer, publisher, translator, and writer
• Michal Ajvaz, novelist and poet, magic realist
• Karel Slavoj Amerling, also known as Karl Slavomil Amerling or Slavoj Strnad Klatovský, teacher, writer, and philosopher
• Hana Andronikova, writer
• Jakub Arbes, writer and journalist, realist
• Ludvík Aškenazy, writer and journalist
• Josef Augusta, paleontologist, geologist, and science popularizer

  B

• Jindřich Šimon Baar, Catholic priest and writer, realist, author of the so-called country prose
• Bohuslav Balbín, writer and Jesuit
• Josef Barák, politician, journalist, and poet, member of the Májovci literary group
• Eduard Bass, writer, journalist, singer, and actor
• Jan František Beckovský, writer, historian, translator, and priest
• Kamil Bednář, poet, writer and translator
• Vavřinec Benedikt z Nudožer, mathematician, teacher, poet, translator, and philologist of Slovak origin, author of a Czech grammar
• Jan Beneš, writer and political prisoner
• Božena Benešová, prose writer.
• Alexandra Berková, novelist and screenwriter
• Zdeňka Bezděková, writer, philosopher and translator
• Petr Bezruč, poet and writer
• Konstantin Biebl, poet
• Jan Blahoslav, humanistic writer and composer
• Ivan Blatný, poet, member of Skupina 42
• Lev Blatný, poet, author, theatre critic and Dramaturg
• Egon Bondy, philosopher, writer, and poet, the main personality of the Prague underground
• Tereza Boučková, writer, dramatist and screenwriter
• Emanuel Bozděc, dramatist.
• Zuzana Brabcová, novelist
• Arthur Breisky, writer, translator, playwright
• Otokar Březina, Symbolist poet and essayist
• Bedřich Bridel, baroque writer, poet, and missionary
• Max Brod, Jewish German-speaking author, composer, and journalist

  C

• Josef Čapek
• Karel Čapek
• Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod
• Svatopluk Čech
• František Čelakovský, poet and translator
• Jan Čep
• Petr Chelčický
• Václav Cílek, geologist and science popularizer

  D

• Mikuláš Dačický z Heslova, poet and autobiographer.
• 'Dalimil', anonymous author of the Boleslav Chronicle.
• Jakub Deml, priest and writer
• Dominika Dery, poet, playwright, journalist, and memoirist, former ballet dancer
• Ivan Diviš, significant poet and essayist of the 2nd half of the 20th century
• Josef Dobrovský, linguist, lexicographer, and literary historian
• Jan Drda, prose writer and playwright
• Jaroslav Durych, prose writer, poet, playwright, journalist and surgeon
• Václav Dušek, novelist.
• Viktor Dyk, poet, prose writer, playwright and politician

  E

• Pavel Eisner, writer, poet and translator
• Karel Jaromír Erben
• Karla Erbová, poet, prose writer, and journalist.1

  F

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• Otakar Fischer, translator, poet, literary historian and playwright.
• Viktor Fischl, poet, novelist and diplomat.
• Smil Flaška z Pardubic.
• František Flos, novelist
• Jaroslav Foglar, novelist.
• Jaroslav Erik Frič, poet and musician
• Norbert Frýd, writer, novelist, journalist and diplomat
• Julius Fučík
• Jiří Fried, novelist.
• Ladislav Fuks, novelist.

  G

• František Gellner, poet, short-story writer and anarchist.
• Adam Georgiev, writer of gay literature
• Arnošt Goldflam, playwright, director and actor.
• Hermann Grab, German-language writer
• Ladislav Grosman, novelist and screenwriter.
• Jiří Gruša, poet, prose writer, translator, literary critic, and politician

  H

• Václav Hájek z Libočan
• František Halas
• Vítězslav Hálek
• Jaroslav Hašek
• Václav Havel
• Karel Havlíček Borovský
• Iva Hercíková
• Ignát Herrmann
• Adolf Heyduk
• Jaroslav Hilbert
• Josef Hiršal, translator and poet
• Karel Hlaváček
• Daniela Hodrová
• Vladimír Holan
• Josef Holeček, South Bohemian writer, realist, author of the so-called country prose, and translator
• Miroslav Holub, poet and immunologist
• Josef Hora
• Egon Hostovský
• Bohumil Hrabal
• Petra Hůlová, novelist, playwright, journalist
• Jan Hus

  J

• Josef Jedlička
• Ivan Jelínek, poet.
• Milena Jesenská, journalist, writer, and translator
• Alois Jirásek
• Ivan Martin Jirous
• Josef Jungmann, lexicographer, linguist, translator, and poet

  K

• Martin Kabátník.
• Franz Kafka
• Siegfried Kapper, poet, writer, translator.
• Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic.
• Egon Kisch, German-language writer
• Václav Kliment Klicpera, playwright
• Ivan Klíma, playwright and director.
• Ladislav Klíma, philosopher and novelist
• Václav František Kocmánek
• Pavel Kohout
• Ján Kollár, Slovak poet
• Jan Amos Komenský
• Vladimír Körner, novelist
• Kosmas
• Petr Král
• Eliška Krásnohorská
• Jiří Kratochvil
• Jan Křesadlo
• Tomáš Krystlík
• Milan Kundera

  L

• František Langer, dramatist and prose writer
• Květa Legátová, novelist and writer
• Paul Leppin, German-language writer
• Gustav Leutelt, German-language writer
• Věra Linhartová, writer, art historian
• Šimon Lomnický z Budče, poet and moralist.
• Arnošt Lustig, novelist, short story writer and dramatist
• Óndra Łysohorsky, poet

  M

• Karel Hynek Mácha
• Josef Svatopluk Machar
• Jiří Mahen
• Marie Majerová, novelist.
• Jiří Marek, writer, journalist, screenwriter
• Rudolf Medek
• Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic, composer and organ player
• Daniel Micka, writer and translator from English
• Libuše Moníková, German-language writer
• Vilém Mrštík, novelist
• Jiří Mucha

  N

• Ondřej Neff
• Vladimír Neff
• Božena Němcová
• Ludvík Němec, novelist.
• Jan Neruda
• Josef Nesvadba
• Stanislav Kostka Neumann, poet and novelist.
• Vítězslav Nezval
• Arne Novák
• Teréza Nováková, feminist, writer and editor.

  O

• Ivan Olbracht, writer, journalist and translator.
• Jiří Orten, poet.
• Jan Otčenášek, novelist and playwright.

  P

• František Palacký, historian
• Vladimír Páral, novelist
• Ota Pavel
• Jan Pelc
• Ferdinand Peroutka
• Alexej Pludek
• Hynek z Poděbrad
• Karel Poláček
• Oldřich Prefát z Vlkanova, astronomer and mathematician.
• Gabriela Preissová
• Lenka Procházková, prose writer
• Přibík Pulkava z Radenína, court historian.

  R

• Karel Václav Rais, realist novelist, author of the so-called country prose, numerous books for youth and children, and several poems
• Vojtěch Rakous, pseudonym of Adalbert Östreicher, writer and journalist.
• Bohuslav Reynek
• Sylvie Richterová, poet and literary scholar
• Václav Jan Rosa, poet and philologist.
• Jaroslav Rudiš, writer, journalist and musician.
• Vavřinec Leander Rvačovský ze Rvačova, priest and prose writer.

  S

• Petr Šabach
• Pavel Josef Šafařík, Slovak Slavicist, literary historian, and poet
• František Xaver Šalda, critic and essayist.
• Zdena Salivarová, writer, translator and publisher
• Michal Šanda
• Prokop František Šedivý, playwright, actor, and translator of the National Revival era
• Jaroslav Seifert
• Ondřej Sekora, writer, journalist, cartoonist, illustrator, caricaturist, graphic
• Karol Sidon
• Jan Skácel
• Josef Škvorecký
• Josef Václav Sládek, poet.
• Josef Karel Šlejhar, prose writer.
• Ladislav Smoček, playwright and theater director
• Jiří Šotola, actor, poet and novelist.
• Antonín Sova, Impressionist and Symbolist poet
• Fráňa Šrámek, anarchist, impressionist, and vitalist, poet, novelist, and dramatist
• Pavel Šrut
• Petr Stančík
• Antal Stašek
• Vladimír Šlechta
• Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek, playwright
• Tomáš Štítný ze Štítného
• Eduard Štorch
• Ladislav Stroupežnický
• Karolína Světlá
• Růžena Svobodová

  T

• Karel Teige, art critic, journalist, and translator
• Jindra Tichá, writer and academic
• Pavel Tigrid, political journalist and essayist.
• Jan Tománek - Movie director and writer
• Filip Topol
• Jáchym Topol
• Joseph Topol, playwright.
• Ctibor Tovačovský z Cimburka, legal and political theorist
• Václav Beneš Třebízský
• Josef Kajetán Tyl, playwright, writer and actor.

  U

• Milan Uhde, playwright and politician.
• Ota Ulč, Czech-American author and columnist
• Hermann Ungar, German-language writer
• Zdeněk Urbánek, writer and translator.

  V

• Josef Váchal
• Ludvík Vaculík
• Edvard Valenta
• Vladislav Vančura
• Fan Vavřincová
• Jaroslav Velinský
• Michal Viewegh
• Josef Vohryzek, literary critic.
• Viktor Vohryzek, writer, journalist and translator.
• Johannes von Tepl
• Jiří Voskovec
• Alena Vostrá, novelist
• Václav Vratislav z Mitrovic, autobiographical writer.
• Jaroslav Vrchlický
• Ivan Vyskočil, fiction writer and dramatist.

  W

• Alena Wagnerová
• Magdalena Wagnerová, writer and editor
• Jiří Weil
• Richard Weiner
• Jan Weiss
• Jiří Weiss
• Franz Werfel
• Ivan Wernisch
• Zikmund Winter
• Jana Witthedová
• Jiří Wolker

  Z

• Jan Zábrana
• Jan Zahradníček
• Pavel Zajíček
• Vojtěch Zamarovský
• Antonín Zápotocký
• Julius Zeyer, poet, dramatist and novelist.
• Miroslav Zikmund
• Karel Zlín
• Anna Zonová