Popular Czech writer, author of literature for children and television children’s stories, creator of legendary characters, e.g. Rumcajs the robber. He is now regarded as one of the classic authors of Czech fairy tales.
Popular author of youth literature, author of the legendary comics Rapid Arrows (Rychlé šípy) and a foremost representative of the Czech scout movement in Czechoslovakia.
Poet, prose writer, translator, author of experimental poetry and literature for children.
Film and television screenwriter, poet and dramatist. He became famous as author of original screenplays for film comedies, television series and animated bedtime stories.
Fine artist, illustrator and author of children’s books in which she combines textual and artistic elements. She received the Gold Ribbon award for life-long contribution to literature and art.
Prose writer and poet, one of the most famous representatives of Realism in Czech literature, author of the so-called country prose. He realistically depicted life in the Podkrkonoší region and the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands.
Writer, author of books for children and youth. He has been one of the most read and highly-acclaimed Czech authors of children’s literature for a long time. He won the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
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.
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.
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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