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Bianca Bellová is a Czech writer. She was born in Prague. She has written a number of books: Sentimentální román, Mrtvý muž, Celý den se nic nestane and Jezero. Jezero won the top Czech literary award Magnesia Litera and the EU Prize for Literature in 2016 and has been translated in numerous languages.

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Božena Benešová, née Zapletalová, was a Czech author and poet whose work is considered to have been at the forefront of psychological prose. The greater part of her youth was spent in Uherské Hradiště and Napajedla, where in 1896 she married a railway clerk named Josef Beneš. In 1908 she and her husband moved to Prague.

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Alexandra Berková was a Czech writer and educator.

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Tereza Boučková is a Czech writer.

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Radka Denemarková is a Czech novelist, dramatist, TV screenplay writer, translator, essayist.

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Petra Hůlová is a Czech writer.

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Eliška Krásnohorská was a Czech feminist author. She was introduced to literature and feminism by Karolína Světlá. She wrote works of lyric poetry and literary criticism, however, she is usually associated with children's literature and translations, including works by Pushkin, Mickiewicz and Byron.

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Zuzana Kultánová is a Czech novelist. For her debut novel, Augustin Zimmermann, she received the 2017 Jiří Orten Award given to the author of a work of prose or poetry who is no older than 30 at the time of the work's completion.

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Marie Majerová was a Czech writer and translator.

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Božena Němcová was a Czech writer of the final phase of the Czech National Revival movement.

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Teréza Nováková, née Lanhausová was a Czech feminist author, editor, and ethnographer.

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Magdaléna Platzová is a Czech writer.

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Lenka Procházková is a Czech writer.

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Petra Soukupová is contemporary Czech author, playwright, and screenwriter.

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Karolina Světlá was a Czech female author of the 19th century. She was associated with the literary May School. She married Professor Petr Mužák (1821–1892) in 1852, who had taught her music. She also had an affair with Jan Neruda. She introduced Eliška Krásnohorská to literature and feminism. Her first novel Vesnický román was published in 1867. Her other works include Nemodlenec (1873) and Kříž u potoka.

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Růžena Svobodová, born Růžena Čápová, was a Czech writer.

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Zdena Tominová was a Czech novelist and a dissident in the communist era of Czechoslovakia.

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Kateřina Tučková is a Czech novelist and curator. She is best known as the author of Žítkovské bohyně, a Czech bestseller translated into 16 languages.

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Sára Vybíralová is a Czech writer, translator from French, and editor.

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Magdalena Wagnerová is a Czech writer.