Vladimír Neff

Vladimír Neff was a Czech writer and translator. He wrote numerous historical novels, political satires, and parodies on criminal stories and adventure tales. He was declared as a in 1979.
He was known for his historical novels, especially the pentalogy Reasonable marriages, Emperor's violets, Mean blood, The happy widow and The royal charioteer and the satirical pseudo-historical trilogy depicting the travels and adventures of an imaginary nobleman, Petr Kukaň z Kukaně, consisting of the books Queens have no legs, The ring of the Borgias and The beautiful sorceress.
He was the father of the contemporary publicist and science-fiction writer, Ondřej Neff.