Patrik Ouředník (in French sometimes known as Patrick; born 23 April 1957) is a Czech author and translator, living in France.

In 1984 he emigrated to France, where he first worked as a chess consultant, then as a librarian.

From 1986 to 1998 he served as editor and head of the literature section of the quarterly L'Autre Europe.

Translator from French into Czech (François Rabelais, Alfred Jarry, Raymond Queneau, Samuel Beckett, Henri Michaux, Boris Vian, Claude Simon...) and from Czech into French (Bohumil Hrabal, Vladimír Holan, Jan Skácel, Miroslav Holub, Jiří Gruša, Ivan Wernisch...), Ouředník is also the author of various literary texts.

Three of his novels were translated into English: A complete list of his work includes: