# List of Czech women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in the Czech Republic or Czechoslovakia or whose writings are closely associated with those countries.

## A

* Madeleine Albright (1937–2022), American politician, non-fiction writer, autobiographer, writing in English
* Hana Andronikova (1967–2011), novelist, short story writer

## B

* Božena Benešová (1873–1936), Czech poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright
* Alexandra Berková (1949–2008), novelist, short story writer, some works translated into English
* Zdeňka Bezděková (1907–1999), writer, philosopher and translator
* Anna Bolavá, (born 1981), novelist, poet
* Tereza Boučková (born 1957), short story writer, playwright
* Zuzana Brabcová (1959–2015), novelist

## C

* Marie Červinková-Riegrová (1854–1895), biographer, autobiographer, librettist
* Zuzana Černínová z Harasova (1600–1654), letter writer

## D

* Radka Denemarková (born 1968), novelist, biographer
* Dominika Dery (born 1975), poet, prose writer, memoirist, author of The Twelve Little Cakes

## E

* Helen Epstein (born 1947 in Prague), biographer, memoirist, essayist, author of Children of the Holocaust

## H

* Jiřina Hauková (1919–2005), poet, translator
* Eva Hauserová (1954–2023), novelist, non-fiction writer, feminist
* Iva Hercíková (1935–2007), novelist, screenwriter
* Daniela Hodrová (born 1946), novelist, editor, literary researcher
* Eva Hudečková (born 1949), novelist, screenwriter
* Petra Hůlová (born 1979), popular novelist

## J

* Jožka Jabůrková (1896–1942), journalist, non-fiction writer, translator
* Milena Jesenská (1896–1944), journalist, columnist, editor, translator

## K

* Eva Kantůrková (born 1930), novelist, short story writer, essayist, diarist
* Jakuba Katalpa (born 1979), novelist, short story writer
* Věra Kohnová (1929–1942), child diarist, author of The Diary of Vera Kohnova
* Eliška Krásnohorská (1847–1926), poet, librettist, children's writer, critic, feminist

## L

* Květa Legátová (1919–2012), novelist, short story writer, essayist
* Věra Linhartová (born 1938), art historian, short story writer, children's writer, poet, sometimes writing in French
* Helena Lisická (1930–2009), writer of fairy tales and legends
* Lucie Lomová (born 1964), comics writer
* Jarmila Loukotková (1923–2007), historical novelist, short story writer, children's writer, playwright

## M

* Marie Majerová (1882–1967), novelist, short story writer, children's writer
* Heda Margolius Kovály (1919–2010), memoirist, novelist, some works translated into English
* Libuše Moníková (1945–1998), novelist, playwright, essayist, writing in German

## N

* Božena Němcová (1820–1862), acclaimed novelist, writer of folk tales, author of The Grandmother (Czech: Babička)
* Bára Nesvadbová (born 1975), novelist, columnist, children's writer

## P

* Halina Pawlowská (born 1955), screenwriter, short story writer, journalist, television presenter
* Iva Pekárková (born 1963 in Prague), Czech-language novelist, now living in New York
* Gabriela Preissová (1862–1946), playwright, short story writer
* Lenka Procházková (born 1951), novelist, television screenwriter
* Marie Pujmanová (1893–1958) Czech poet and novelist

## R

* Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová (1785–1845), remembered for her cookery book
* Sylvie Richterová (born 1945), short story writer, poet, essayist, educator
* Lenka Reinerová (1916–2008), German-language non-fiction writer, journalist, editor, memoirist, essayist

## S

* Zdena Salivarová (born 1933), novelist, living in Canada
* Milada Součková (1898–1983), writer, literary historian, diplomat
* Petra Soukupová (born 1982), author, playwright, screenwriter
* Petra Štarková [cs] (born 1975), author, psychologist
* Marie Šťastná (born 1981), poet
* Ela Stein-Weissberger (1930-2018), biographer
* Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914), born in Prague, Austrian pacifist, novelist, Nobel Peace Prize winner
* Eva Švankmajerová (1940–2005), surrealist artist, writer, poet
* Karolina Světlá (1830–1899), novelist, feminist

## T

* Jindra Tichá (born 1937), academic, short story writer, living in New Zealand
* Kateřina Tučková (born 1980), best-selling novelist (works translated into English), non-fiction writer

## U

* Eli Urbanová (1922–2012), Esperantist, novelist, poet

## V

* Fan Vavřincová (1917–2012), screenwriter, novelist, short story writer
* Božena Viková-Kunětická (1862–1934), novelist, short story writer, politician

## W

* Alena Wagnerová (born 1936), journalist, biographer
* Magdalena Wagnerová (born 1960), short story writer, screenwriter

## Z

* Marketa Zinnerová (born 1942), novelist, screenwriter, children's writer
* Anna Zonová (born 1962), novelist, short story writer