Karel Jaromír Erben
Karel Jaromír Erben was a Czech historian, poet and writer of the mid-19th century, best known for his collection "Kytice", which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes.
He was born on November 7, 1811 in Miletín u Jičína. He went to college in Hradec Králové. Then, in 1831, he went to Prague where he studied philosophy and later law. He started working in the National Museum (Národní muzeum) with František Palacký in 1843. He became editor of a Prague's newspaper in 1848. Two years later, in 1850, he became archives' secretary of the National Museum. He died on November 21, 1870 of tuberculosis.
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Helen Paris
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Příjmení Panklová získala, až když si její matku Terezii Novotnou v létě roku 1820 vzal Johann Pankl. Roku 1821 se Panklovi přestěhovali do Ratibořic, kam se za nimi přistěhovala i její babička – Magdaléna Novotná (1825), která malou Barunku velmi ovlivnila; v dospělosti si babičku velmi zidealizovala.
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Zemřel 24. 2. 1979 v Praze.
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Karel Hynek Mácha
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Mácha's genius was discovered and glorified much later by the poets and novelists of the 1850s generation (for example Jan Neruda, Vítězslav Hálek, Karolina Světlá) and Máj is now regarded as the classic work of Czech Romanticism, and is considered one of the best Czech poems ever written.
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Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.
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French literary figures, including Molière and Jean de la Fontaine, gathered at Auteuil, a favorite place.
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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".
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Jáchym Topol
Jáchym Topol was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to Josef Topol, Czech playwright, poet, and translator of Shakespeare, and Jiřina Topolová, daughter of the famous Czech Catholic writer Karel Schulz.
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Topol's writing began with lyrics for the rock band Psí vojáci, led by his younger brother, Filip, in the late '70s and early '80s. In 1982, he cofounded the samizdat magazine Violit, and in 1985 Revolver Revue, a samizdat review that specialized in modern Czech writing.
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Václav Hrabě
Czech poet and writer, and the most important member of the Beat Generation in former Czechoslovakia. Hrabě was born in Příbram to Jan Hrabě and Magdalena Kalinová. He spent his childhood and youth in Lochovice and attended a high school in nearby Hořovice. He graduated in 1957 and moved to Prague, where he continued his education at the Faculty of Pedagogy, studying Czech language and History. After graduation from the university in 1961 he served two years in the army. Upon his discharge he worked in a variety of jobs - as laborer, librarian, writer for the literary magazine Tvář (Face), and finally as teacher. Hrabě's untimely death at the age of twenty-five (he died in his sleep, accidentally poisoned by carbon monoxide), robbed Czech l
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Vítězslav Nezval
One of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the twentieth century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechoslovakia.
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Ladislav Klíma
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Lucie Ortega
Lucie Ortega is a Czech fantasy author for young adult and adult readers. Her stories mix adventure, emotional depth, and rich worldbuilding, while exploring darker and more serious themes. She often draws inspiration from mythology.
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In 2019, she won the Hvězda inkoustu literary contest with Světla nad močálem, a Slavic fantasy infused with heavy contemporary elements. Its success sparked a full series, now reaching readers in Poland. She also wrote the standalone Soumrak Edenu, blending myth, philosophy, and dystopian fantasy, as well as several short stories featured in magazines and anthologies.
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Kateřina Šardická
Pracuje jako redaktorka a příležitostná scenáristka. Napsala dva young adult romány. Zmizení Sáry Lindertové (2019) zvítězilo v anketě Kniha roku v kategoriích YA roku & Objev roku. Práva na její druhý román Noci běsů (2020) se prodala do USA, Jižní Koreje a na Ukrajinu. Je autorkou čarodějné sbírky povídek Apotéka Agnes Divotvorné (2025) a spoluautorka komiksu pro děti Stella a strážci závoje (2025). Neklidný hrob (2025) je jejím prvním krůčkem k dospělé fantasy. Bydlí v Brně u svých dvou kocourů a ve volném čase obráží filmové festivaly, cestuje a ráda peče.
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Ota Pavel
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Irena Dousková
Irena Dousková se narodila roku 1964 v Příbrami v herecké rodině. Od roku 1976 žije v Praze, kde absolvovala gymnaziální studia (gymnázium Nad štolou) a posléze Právnickou fakultu Univerzity Karlovy. Právnické profesi se ale nikdy nevěnovala. Vystřídala různá zaměstnání, většinou nějakým způsobem související s novinařinou. Posledních několik let je na volné noze a věnuje se psaní.
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Vladislav Vančura
Vladislav Vančura byl český spisovatel, dramatik, filmový režisér, původním povoláním lékař.
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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. -
Jan Neruda
Jan Nepomuk Neruda was a Czech journalist, writer and poet, one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of "the May school".
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Michal Viewegh
Michal Viewegh is one of the most popular contemporary Czech writers and the bestselling one. He writes about romantic relationships of his contemporaries with humour, and variously successful irony and attempts at deeper meaningfulness; he is sometimes compared to Nick Hornby by his fans.
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His books, which, since the late 1990s, he publishes every spring, usually sell about 50,000 copies each, bringing him an upper-high-class income unparalleled among Czech writers (by his own boastful admissions, his royalties from a successful book are equal to roughly 8 years of an average Czech salary). His 2004 income was Kč 4 million. Viewegh likes to point out this success with readers, as well as the fact that his books have been translated to severa -
Arnošt Lustig
Arnošt Lustig (born 21 December 1926 in Prague) is a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust.
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As a Jewish boy in Czechoslovakia during World War II, he was sent in 1942 to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, from where he was later transported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, followed by time in the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 1945, he escaped from a train carrying him to the Dachau concentration camp when the engine was mistakenly destroyed by an American fighter-bomber. He returned to Prague in time to take part in the May 1945 anti-Nazi uprising.
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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 Fuks
Ladislav Fuks byl český prozaik, autor především psychologické prózy s tématem úzkosti člověka ohrožovaného nesvobodou a násilím. Jako symbol tohoto tématu si pak zvolil druhou světovou válku a holokaust. Většina jeho díla je autobiografická, často skrytě - téměř všemi jeho knihami prochází figura senzitivního, slabého hocha, žijícího ve svém vnitřním světě a toužícího po citovém přátelství. Právě tato stále se vracející postava trpícího a mučeného chlapce má silnou míru autobiografičnosti. Fuksovo dílo je někdy také autobiografickou travestií – např. Vévodkyně a kuchařka. Fuks je ve svém díle též mistrem masky, jinotajů a náznaků, k čemuž byl jako homosexuál přirozeně donucen dobou, v níž žil a tvořil. Ve svých knihách se také často dopouš
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Karel Havlíček Borovský
Karel Havlíček Borovský was a Czech writer, poet, critic, politician, journalist, and publisher.
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Karel Poláček
Karel Poláček byl český spisovatel, humorista, novinář a filmový scenárista. Dílo K. Poláčka představuje jednu z nejvýznamnějších hodnot české meziválečné prózy. Ve svých humoristických románech se zaměřil na zobrazení tragikomedie maloměstského života.
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Poláčkovy prózy lze rozdělit na humoristické a společensko-kritické. Snad nejúspěšnějším dílem je posmrtně vydaný příběh Petra Bajzy Bylo nás pět. -
Jan Otčenášek
Narodil se 19. 11. 1924 v Praze. Vystudoval obchodní akademii (maturoval v r. 1943). Od roku 1944 pracoval v továrně Avia Letňany. Zde se také zapojil do odboje. Vysokoškolského studia estetiky zanechal. Od roku 1952 pracoval v aparátu Svazu československých spisovatelů. Od roku 1960 byl spisovatelem z povolání. Po roce 1973 dramaturgem Filmového studia Barrandov.
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Zemřel 24. 2. 1979 v Praze.
„Ale co zmůžeš proti světu,když už jej staří tak beznadějějně zpackali? Vletěls do něho bez vlastní viny. Vybral by sis onačejší,ale nikdo se neptal.“ -
Dušan Mitana
Do literárneho života sa Dušan Mitana zapojil otvoreným listom básnickej skupine Osamelí bežci, publikovaným v Mladej tvorbe. Debutoval poviedkou Oáza s jabloňami v Mladej tvorbe v roku 1965 a od roku 1967 bol externým redaktorom tohto časopisu. Od roku 1973 pracoval ako redaktor časopisu Romboid, zo „znormalizovanej“ redakcie však v roku 1975 odišiel a odvtedy žije v Bratislave ako spisovateľ „na voľnej nohe“.
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Dušan Mitana patrí do súčasnej slovenskej prózy. Ako jeden z prvých písal experimentátorskú postmodernistickú prózu v slovenskej literatúre.
Knižným debutom Psie dni (1970) sa zaradil do silnej generácie spisovateľov, ktorí v tomto desaťročí razantne vstúpili do slovenskej literatúry. Príbehy vychádzajúce z bežných životných situácií -
Zdeněk Jirotka
Zdeněk Jirotka was born in Ostrava on January 7, 1911 and died in Prague on April 12, 2003.
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After not finishing his studies at secondary school he served out as a bricklayer, later (1933) he graduated from building technical school in Hradec Králové.
After finishing the school he entered the Czechoslovak Army, where he served till 1940 as an infantry officer. Then he worked at the Ministry of public works and till the end of the WWII he made his living by literature. He worked as an editor of Lidové noviny (newspaper) from 1940 to 1945, then he became an editor of Svobodné noviny (newspaper), after 1951 he worked for two years for the humorous journal Dikobraz. Between 1953 and 1962 he worked in the Czechoslovak broadcast, from where he came -
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Jára Cimrman
Jara Cimrman was a Vienna-born Czech polymath. He was a pedagogue, dramatist, philosopher, gynecologist-amateur, skier, inventor, a close friend of Einstein and a private enemy of Edison. His strongest character trait was patriotism, and he liked to come to Bohemia, which he considered his true home. Here his life work culminated.
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In 2005, Jara Cimrman won the title of The Gratest Czech as a result of a poll organised by the Czech Television.
Early life
Jara Cimrman was born in the years 1850-1870 in Vienna. Because Franz Huschkov, the registrar of the 4th Vienna Parish, was making most of his entries in a state of inebriation, it cannot be said with any degree of certainty whether Jára Cimrman was born to Marlén and Leopold Cimrman on a free -
Jiří Weil
Jiří Weil IPA: [jɪr̝iː vaɪl] was a Czech writer. He was Jewish. His noted works include the two novels Life with a Star, and Mendelssohn Is on the Roof, as well as many short stories, and other novels.
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Karolina Světlá
Karolína Světlá (vlastním jménem Johana Nepomucena Rottová, provdaná Mužáková) byla česká spisovatelka, představitelka generace májovců. Je považována za zakladatelku českého vesnického románu.
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Karolina Světlá pocházela ze zámožné rodiny Rottovy. V mládí se jí dostalo vzdělání; kromě němčiny a češtiny ovládala také francouzštinu. Její dílo a život velmi ovlivnilo přátelství s Janem Nerudou (se kterým měla platonický vztah) a s Boženou Němcovou, ze zahraničních literátů její tvorbu ovlivnila francouzská spisovatelka George Sand. Mimo to však její dílo ovlivnila i smrt její jediné dcery (podobně jako u Boženy Němcové, které zemřel syn Hynek roku 1853).
Roku 1852 se vdala za svého učitele hry na klavír Petra Mužáka (1821–1892), který ji také uve -
Kateřina Ševčíková
Kateřina Ševčíková vystudovala žurnalistiku na Masarykově univerzitě v Brně. Tvůrčímu psaní se věnuje od dětství, v roce 2015 jí vyšla povídka Hra ozvěny ve sborníku DivergentCzech. Jejím debutovým románem je young adult fantasy Přízraky noci, na které volně navázaly Temnoty hlubin. Miluje cestování a shromažďování knih, které potom nestíhá číst, a neustále trpí nutkáním něco tvořit.
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Jakub Arbes
Jakub Arbes (12. června 1840 v Praze na Smíchově – 8. dubna 1914 tamtéž) byl český spisovatel a novinář. Sympatizoval s májovci, ale nepatřil k nim, protože tvořil za jiných okolností než oni.
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V rodném Smíchově strávil celé mládí. Chodil v letech 1851 až 1854 do farní maltézské školy u P. Marie Vítězné na Malé Straně. Pocházel z chudých poměrů a měl se jít učit obuvnictví. Měl však velmi dobré známky ve škole a proto jej rodiče poslali na studie. Začínal na nižší reálce u sv. Jakuba, kde se seznámil s Juliem Zeyerem. Pak pokračoval na novoměstské vyšší německé reálce v Mikulandské ulici, kde poznal Jana Nerudu jako učitele češtiny. Na škole zůstal do roku 1859. Poté sice od roku 1859 studoval v Praze polytechniku, ale více se věnoval jiným o -
Alois Jirásek
Alois Jirásek se narodil roku 1851 v Hronově u Náchoda. Pocházel ze selského rodu, jeho otec byl původně tkalcem a pak pekařem. Dětství strávil ve Velké Vsi u Broumova. V letech 1863–1867 studoval na německém gymnáziu v Broumově, potom na českém gymnáziu v Hradci Králové. Po maturitě studoval na filozofické fakultě Univerzity Karlovy v Praze.
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Alois Jirásek pracoval jako učitel dějepisu na gymnáziu, potom na reálce v Litomyšli a poté v Praze. Spřátelil se s mnoha vynikajícími osobnostmi českého národa – například s M. Alšem, J. V. Sládkem, K. V. Raisem, J. S. Macharem, Z. Nejedlým. Pracoval jako redaktor časopisu Zvon. Byl zastáncem samostatnosti českého a slovenského národa a jako jeden z prvních podepsal Manifest českých spisovatelů.
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Petr Šabach
Český spisovatel, známý svými humoristickými romány a povídkami. Jeho otec byl voják z povolání.
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Šabach od roku 1966 studoval Střední knihovnickou školu, po 1. ročníku přestoupil na gymnázium, z něhož byl roku 1969 vyloučen, externě přijat zpět na SKŠ, kde v roce 1974 maturoval. Následovalo dálkové studium kulturologie na filozofické fakultě UK (obor absolvoval 1979).
Od roku 1974, do doby, kdy odešel na volnou nohu, vystřídal různá povolání (noční hlídač, metodik kulturního domu v Domě u Kamenného zvonu aj.). Po roce 2000 vyučoval tvůrčí psaní na Literární akademii (Soukromá vysoká škola Josefa Škvoreckého v Praze). Petr Šabach byl členem neformálního hospodského společenství Zlatá Praha.
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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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Radek John
Roku 1979 vystudoval scenáristiku a dramaturgii hraných filmů na Filmové a televizní fakultě Akademie múzických umění. V letech 1980 až 1993 byl redaktorem časopisu Mladý svět, do kterého přispíval reportážemi o narkomanech, vekslácích, prostitutkách, vlajkonoších a o panice kolem nemoci AIDS a také sériemi cestopisných reportáží.
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V 80. letech pracoval ve Filmovém studiu Barrandov jako scenárista a spolupracoval i s televizí. Je autorem scénářů k filmům Jen si tak trochu písknout, Sněženky a machři, Bony a klid, Proč?, Tankový prapor, Ta naše písnička česká II, Prachy dělaj člověka aj. Ve své literární tvorbě se zaměřuje zejména na problémy mladých lidí v dnešním světě, zejména pak drogy, násilí a prostituci. Jeho nejznámější román Memento b -
Jaroslav Foglar
Foglar was born and grew up in Prague, capital of Bohemia. Because his father died prematurely he was brought up in rather poor material conditions by his mother. He was strongly influenced by romantic parts of Prague. All of the fictional towns in his novels are more or less derived from Prague. During the 1920s, Foglar was strongly influenced by German independent Wandervogel movement as well as Scout movement led by Antonín Benjamin Svojsík under Czech name Junák.
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During 1930s and 1940s, Foglar worked as a magazine editor in one of the largest Prague publishing houses, Melantrich. He edited several journals for youths:
Mladý hlasatel ("Young herald"), 1938–1941
Junák ("Scout"), 1945–1949
Vpřed ("Ahead"), 1946–1948
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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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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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Marek Šindelka
Studoval kulturologii na Filozofické fakultě UK v Praze a scenáristiku na pražské FAMU, kde navázal doktorským studiem.
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Za básnickou prvotinu Strychnin a jiné básně (Paseka, 2005), kterou napsal jako dvacetiletý, mu byla udělena Cena Jiřího Ortena. V roce 2008 mu v nakladatelství Pistorius & Olšanská vyšel román s názvem Chyba o překupníkovi, který si do těla zasadí vzácnou rostlinu, aby ji mohl propašovat kupci. Následovala kniha povídek Zůstaňte s námi, vydaná v roce 2011, a po ní další povídková sbírka Mapa Anny v roce 2014.
Za povídkovou knihu Zůstaňte s námi obdržel cenu Magnesia Litera 2012 v kategorii prózy a v téže kategorii bodoval o čtyři roky později také s knihou Únava materiálu, inspirovanou osudy běženců.
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Květa Legátová
Květa Legátová, born Věra Hofmanová, was a Czech novelist and writer whose work spanned a period from the 1950s to the 2000s. Her best known work, a 2001 collection of short stories and essays entitled "Želary," and her 2002 book, "Jozova Hanule," were adapted into the 2003 film, Želary.
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Jan Pelc
Jan Pelc had been living in exile in France from the year 1980 to 1989. He is permanently living in Prague from the year 1993. His core literary work is the novel … a bude hůř.
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