Czech Republic
See also: Literature of the Czech Republic- Karel Čapek (1890–1938) inventor of the word robot, moralist, ironist, Czech patriot
- Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923), author of The Good Soldier Svejk
- Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997), author of Closely Watched Trains, died trying to feed pigeons.
- Milan Kundera, (born 1929) author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
- Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986), (Nobel Prize for Literature) (1984)
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