Vladimír Neff (13 June 1909, Prague – 2 July 1983, Prague) 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 National Artist of Czechoslovakia 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 and Královský vozataj) and the satirical pseudo-historical trilogy depicting the travels and adventures of an imagi