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 (1946–2024), 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 () 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 (1933–2025), novelist, lived in Canada Milada Součková (1898–1983), writer, literary historian, diplomat Petra Soukupová (born 1982), author, playwright, screenwriter 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 Markéta Zinnerová (born 1942), novelist, screenwriter, children's writer Anna Zonová (born 1962), novelist, short story writer
See also List of Czech writers List of women writers
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