Czech State Award for Literature
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 | Reference |
| 2024 | Pavel Kolmačka | For the novel Canto ostinato. Triáda | |
| 2023 | Jiří Kratochvil | For the novel Škrtiči bohyně Kálí and for lifetime achievement. | |
| 2022 | Kateřina Tučková | For the novel Bílá Voda and for her body of work. | |
| 2021 | Miloslav Topinka | For 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 Citlivý člověk and for lifetime achievement. | |
| 2016 | Petr Král | For the book of essays Vlastizrady 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 Darmata. | |
| 2012 | Ivan Wernisch | For his body of work to-date. | |
| 2011 | Daniela Hodrová | For the novel Vyvolávání. | |
| 2010 | Antonín Bajaja | For the novel Na krásné modré Dřevnici. | |
| 2009 | Zdeněk Rotrekl | For his body of work to-date. | |
| 2008 | Ludvík Vaculík | For his current literary and publicist work, and for Hodiny klavíru. | |
| 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 Spisy Vladimíra Körnera. | |
| 2005 | Edgar Dutka | For Slečno, ras přichází. | |
| 2004 | Pavel Brycz | For Patriarchátu dávno zašlá sláva. | |
| 2003 | Petr Kabeš | For Těžítka, ta těžítka. | |
| 2002 | Květa Legátová | For her collection of short stories and essays Želary. | |
| 2001 | Věroslav Mertl | For Hřbitov snů. | |
| 2000 | Karel Šiktanc | For Šarlat. | |
| 1999 | Josef Škvorecký | For his extensive and significant work to-date. | |
| 1998 | Vladimír Macura | For Guvernantka a Český sen. | |
| 1997 | Milan Jankovič | For Kapitoly z poetiky Bohumila Hrabala. | - |
| 1996 | Emil Juliš | For Nevyhnutelnosti. | |
| 1995 | Ivan Diviš | For Teorie spolehlivosti. | - |