Czech portrait photographer and former manager and partner of the photographer Jan Saudek.
Prominent illustrator, drawer, editor, journalist, caricaturist and a very talented writer with a distinct style. Author of stories of Ferdinand the Ant and Pytlík the Bug.
Contemporary Czech graphic artist, illustrator and author of animated films and books for children. He is recognised both at home and abroad for his works which deal with man’s freedom and his dreams, and for his numerous illustrations.
Poet, prose writer and author of children’s poetry who wrote about moral questions of human existence, Moravia and coexistence of man and nature.
Poet, publicist and publisher of the magazine Lumír. He translated into Czech almost all the works by William Shakespeare. Themes from works of the Ruch and Lumír generation appear in his works. He is regarded as the founder of modern Czech poetry for children.
Czech fine artist, book illustrator, exceptional animator, screenwriter and director of animated films who primarily focused on working for children and created more than 400 fairy-tale films, such as the television bedtime stories about Rákosníček.
Czech explorer, adventurer, ethnographer, writer and documentarist, the honorary chief of the Kickapoo tribe.
Director, animator, fine artist, puppeteer. World-famous master of puppet film animation, one of the founders and foremost figures of Czech animated and puppet film.
Prose writer, poet and screenwriter, who became known for his psychological novels about power and its abuse, but ended his career as the author of the best known 1950s Czechoslovak socialist realist novels.
Theatre and film critic, director, screenwriter, dramatist and writer. He was a part of a duo with Jiří Voskovec, with whom he worked in the 1920s and 1930s in the Liberated Theatre, and later with Miroslav Horníček.
Distinguished painter, film artist and one of the most popular and published Czech illustrators of the 20th century. Her illustrations decorate hundreds of books for children.
Contemporary writer and poet, author of textbooks My First Reader (Moje první čítanka) and The Little Reader (Malý čtenář), as well as of fairy tales and poems for children.
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