Vladimír Neff (13 June 1909,

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– 2 July 1983,

) was a popular

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writer and translator. He wrote numerous

historical novel Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to oth ...

s, 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 (Sňatky z rozumu, Císařské fialky, Zlá krev, Veselá vdova a Královský vozataj) and the satirical pseudo-historical trilogy depicting the travels and adventures of an imaginary nobleman, Petr Kukaň z Kukaně (Peter Coop from Coop), consisting of the books Queens have no legs, The ring of the Borgias, and The beautiful sorceress (Královny nemají nohy, Prsten Borgiů a Krásná čarodějka). He was the father of the contemporary publicist and science-fiction writer, Ondřej Neff.

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