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  Richard Weiner

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  Richard Weiner was a Czech journalist and writer. He is generally considered to be one of the most important Czech writers of the twentieth century, since he influenced many of his own and later generations of writers. Yet he is little known outside the Czech Republic. Because of his enigmatic writings he has often been likened to Franz Kafka, although mutual influences can be ruled out with near certainty. He has been called "the poet of anxiety", others spoke of him as "the Odd-man out" of Czech literature. His contemporary Karel Čapek named him "the man of pain." -- Wikipedia

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  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
  Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with

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  Václav Havel

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  Beginning in the 1960s, his work turned to focus on the politics of Czechoslovaki

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  Jaroslav Seifert

  Awarded 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man."

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  Ladislav Klíma

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  Ivan Olbracht

  Ivan Olbracht, vlastním jménem Kamil Zeman, byl český spisovatel-prozaik, publicista, novinář a překladatel německé prózy, národní umělec.

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  Karel Čapek

  Karel Čapek is one of the the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century. He wrote with intelligence and humour on a wide variety of subjects. His works are known for their interesting and precise descriptions of reality, and Čapek is renowned for his excellent work with the Czech language. His play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) first popularized the word "robot".
  
  (Arabic: كارل تشابك) (Hebrew: קארל צ'אפק) (Japanese: 카렐 차페크) (Russian: Карел Чапек)

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  Jules Verne

  Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
  
  This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
  
  Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
  
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  Jaroslav Hašek

  Jaroslav Hašek was a Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist best known for his novel The Good Soldier Švejk (Czech: Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války), an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures, which has been translated into sixty languages. He also wrote some 1,500 short stories. He was a journalist, bohemian, and practical joker.

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  Vladislav Vančura

  Vladislav Vančura byl český spisovatel, dramatik, filmový režisér, původním povoláním lékař.
  Jeho prozaické dílo je ovlivněno první světovou válkou, expresionismem, obsahuje celou řadu experimentů – hledá nové způsoby vyjádření. Pro jeho díla je typický specifický jazyk a sloh, který napodobuje větnou stavbu staré češtiny, usiluje o zvukomalbu. Jazyk Vančury je celkově bohatý.

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  Viktor Dyk

  Viktor Dyk was a nationalist Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer. He was sent to jail during the First World War for opposing the Austro-Hungarian empire. He was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of Czech writers. Dyk co-founded a political party and entered politics. He died at age 53, leaving his many poems, plays and writings. (source: Wikipedia.org)

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  Josef Čapek

  Josef Čapek was a Czech artist, writer and poet and brother to author Karel Čapek. Josef Čapek was a student of Cubism, which combined with his own playful style, exhibited a primitive note in his paintings. Josef Čapek collaborated with his brother on numerous occasions, which produced many plays and short stories. Josef Čapek is also famous for penning the Czech children’s classic Doggie and Pussycat. Although his brother Karel is usually noted as the man who coined the word Robot, it was actually Josef; Karel introduced the word Robot into literature. Due to his and his brother’s negative attitude towards Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Regime, Josef was arrested shortly after the German invasion in 1939, and was sent to the Bergen-Belsen Conc

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  František Gellner

  František Gellner was a Czech poet, short story writer, artist and anarchist. His first poems are full of irony in Heinrich Heine's style. In 1901 he published his first collection called Po nás ať přijde potopa! (After Us Let the Floods Come!) in which he used especially sexual motifs without any embellishments. The next collection Radosti života (Joys of Life) shifted the point of view from subject to object and throws the disbelief more on society. The rhythm of the poems is close to vaudeville verses or chansons. Nové verše (New Verses, published posthumously in 1919) are not so pathetic as if seen from a distance with a lot of nonchalance. He also wrote satirical poems in Karel Havlíček Borovský's style which were published mostly in p

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  Petr Bezruč

  Pseudonym of Vladimír Vašek

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  Eduard Petiška

  Eduard Petiška (1924 – 1987) was a Czech poet, translator, playwright and novelist, the author of many books for children and young people, and a translator and theorist of children's literature. He wrote over ninety books, which were translated to dozens of languages.

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  Alena Mornštajnová

  Alena Mornštajnová vystudovala angličtinu a češtinu na Filozofické fakultě Ostravské univerzity. V současné době pracuje jako lektorka anglického jazyka a překladatelka. Žije ve Valašském Meziříčí. V roce 2013 vyšel její debutový román Slepá mapa, který byl nominován na Cenu Česká kniha 2014.

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  Ivan Olbracht

  Ivan Olbracht, vlastním jménem Kamil Zeman, byl český spisovatel-prozaik, publicista, novinář a překladatel německé prózy, národní umělec.

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  Ivan Blatný

  Blatny was a central figure in the Czechoslovak avant-garde until defecting to Britain in 1948, infuriating Communist authorities. His mental health began to deteriorate and he was eventually diagnosed as paranoid-schizophrenic, to spend most of the remainder of his life in British psychiatric hospitals. Though a curious nurse helped re-establish his literary status late in life, he died still in exile, unable to return to his homeland.

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