Gabriela Preissová

Her play Její pastorkyňa was the basis for the opera Jenůfa by Leoš Janáček, as well as a film by Miroslav Cikán.

Her books, written in the 1920s, were about the tragic rural life of the Carinthian Slavs, usually with a strong woman as a heroine.

These dramas didn't achieve the artistic spontaneity of her early work.

Themes of her stories were mostly the affairs of young lovers and the obstacles to their consummation.

Some tales were set to music, such as Eva by Josef Bohuslav Foerster and Jenůfa, an opera by Janáček.