Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

male, deceased (1924) (New York, United States)
What will be my fate as a writer is very simple. My talent for portraying my dreamlike inner life has thrust all matters into the background; my...

Václav Havel

male, 73 years old
Václav Havel, GCB, CC, (born October 5, 1936 in Prague) is a Czech writer and dramatist. He was the ninth and last President of Czechoslovakia (...

Václav Klaus

male, 68 years old
Václav Klaus is the second President of the Czech Republic and a former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (1992-7). A free market oriented e...
Ivan Passer

Ivan Passer

male, 76 years old
Ivan Passer Czech-born film director & screenwriter. One of the key figures in the Czech New Wave in the early sixties, Passer worked closely with...
Madeleine Korbel Albright

Madeleine Korbel Albright

female, 72 years old (Washington)
Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the Nazis invaded that country before World War II, Albright and her family...
Jan Neruda

Jan Neruda

male, deceased (1891)
Jan Nepomuk Neruda (July 9, 1834 – August 22, 1891) was a Czech journalist, writer and poet, one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Re...
Max Brod

Max Brod

male, deceased (1968)
Max Brod and graduated in 1907 to work in the civil service. From 1912 he was a pronounced Zionist (which he attributed to the influence of Martin...
Jaroslav Seifert

Jaroslav Seifert

male, deceased (1986)
Jaroslav Seifert (September 23, 1901 – January 10, 1986) was a Nobel prize winning Czech writer, poet and journalist. Born in Žižkov, a suburb of P...

Lenka Reinerová

female, 93 years old
Lenka Reinerová is the last Czech author who writes exclusively in German.
Jan Saudek

Jan Saudek

male, 74 years old
Jan Saudek (b. 13 May 1935, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech art photographer. Many of his family members died in the Theresienstadt...