Egon Bondy, born Zbyněk Fišer (20 January 1930 in Prague – 9 April 2007 in Bratislava), was a Czech writer, with prolific and distinctive output in poetry, prose and philosophy, one of the leading personalities of the Prague underground within Communist Czechoslovakia.

In the late 1940s, Zbyněk Fišer first took on the name Egon Bondy when preparing a 1949 anthology with his surrealist group whose authors all adopted Jewish pseudonyms.

Bondy had been the name of a number of prominent Prague Jews (as well as the name of a character in Karel Čapek's classic War with the Newts).

[3] From the 1960s he was considered a key figure of the Prague underground, particularly once his texts were set to music by The Plastic People of the Universe in the 1970s.

Bondy was always interested in the study of Karl Marx and in the criticism of both contemporary capitalism and state socialism.