This essentially provoked a clash with the liberal wing of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic, which was joined by Stalinists dissatisfied with the leadership of Antonín Novotny.
[3] Ludvík Vaculík, Karel Kosík, Jiří Lederer, Milan Kundera, Václav Havel, Helena Klímová, Ivan Klíma, Pavel Kohout, Jan Procházka, Alexandr Kliment, Petr Pithart, Jaroslav Putík, Eduard Goldstücker, Vladimír Karfík, Sergej Machonin, A.J.
The tradition of Literární noviny was followed by the exiled Listy, a magazine of the Czechoslovak socialist opposition led by Jiří Pelikán, now published in the Czech Republic (www.listy.cz).
After Jakub Patočka, the co-founder of the DUHA Movement and the editor-in-chief of the socio-ecological magazine Sedmá ženáře Jakub Patočka, became the head of the editorial office, the newspaper expanded to include an ecological-political accent, and the often radical tone of the comments in this field caused numerous controversies.
The majority owner was Miroslav Pavel, director of Czechoslovak Television in the period 27/11/1989 – 10/1/1990 and former spokesman of the two communist prime ministers Lubomír Štrougal and Ladislav Adamec.
After the takeover, many editors and other employees left the paper, the predominant reason being the reluctance to cooperate with former communist secret service agents who worked in LN.
Contributors to the weekly include, for example, Tereza Spencerová, Aleš Bluma, Zbyněk Fiala, Josef Brož or Petr Bílek.
[6] In 2019, LN launched a joint magazine published with Guangming Daily, one of the largest Chinese Communist Party newspapers.
[citation needed] The expert committee of the Department of Art, Literature and Libraries justified the non-granting of the Ministry of Culture subsidy by saying that "Literární noviny is no longer a literary magazine, its name is misleading and in terms of content it cannot be included among the periodicals supported here."
"[citation needed] Even in November 2018, Literární noviny was still unprofitable, Miroslav Pavel paid for the operation from his own funds.