The Czech State Award for Literature () is an award given by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The Czech State Award for Literature is awarded for an original literary work in Czech published during the preceding year or in recognition of a lifetime's work of excellence. The prize consists of a certificate and 300,000 CZK. It is awarded each year on 28 October along with the Czech State Award for Translation.

Laureates Czech State Award for Literature Year Author Awarded work Reference2024Pavel KolmačkaFor the novel Canto ostinato. Triáda2023Jiří KratochvilFor the novel Škrtiči bohyně Kálí and for lifetime achievement.2022Kateřina TučkováFor the novel Bílá Voda and for her body of work.2021Miloslav TopinkaFor his body of work. 2020 Michal Ajvaz For lifetime achievement. 2019 Karol Sidon For lifetime achievement. 2018 Not awarded Jiří Hájíček refused the award. 2017 Jáchym Topol For the novel and for lifetime achievement. 2016 Petr Král For the book of essays and for lifetime achievement 2015 Pavel Šrut For his body of work to-date. 2014 Patrik Ouředník For his body of work to-date. 2013 Petr Hruška For the collection . 2012 Ivan Wernisch For his body of work to-date. 2011 Daniela Hodrová For the novel . 2010 Antonín Bajaja For the novel . 2009 Zdeněk Rotrekl For his body of work to-date. 2008 Ludvík Vaculík For his current literary and publicist work, and for . 2007 Milan Kundera For the first Czech edition of the novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, plus his prose and essay work to-date 2006 Vladimír Körner For . 2005 Edgar Dutka For . 2004 Pavel Brycz For . 2003 Petr Kabeš For . 2002 Květa Legátová For her collection of short stories and essays . 2001 Věroslav Mertl For . 2000 Karel Šiktanc For . 1999 Josef Škvorecký For his extensive and significant work to-date. 1998 Vladimír Macura For . 1997 Milan Jankovič For . - 1996 Emil Juliš For . 1995 Ivan Diviš For . -

See also List of Czech literary awards

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