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The issue of regional literature of Karviná´s region is one of the important components of the regional consciousness of the inhabitants of the area and is connected to the cultural aspirations of its inhabitants and the creators representing them to a greater or lesser extent. (Karvina, in our contribution, we mean for the historical and administrative-administrative reasons the so-called great Karviná, which consists of Karviná, Fryštát, Karviná-Ráj, Staré Město, Darkov and Louky. The term Karviná´s region we mean the former political district.) Literary research in the region may not be a departure from the holistic aspects of national literature, nor from claims to the values surveyed. Specific territorial and typological research has allowed us to focus more closely on the development of Czech and Polish literature in Karviná´s region, as well as on a comparative view of Czech and Polish literature (German literature in this paper does not reflect our contribution). At the same time, we considered it important to point to the fact that the literary works of the authors, who are not natives of Karviná´s region, came to the region mostly for work, but they took inspiration from their literary work. The crucial criterion for a more detailed discussion of the works of selected authors was the importance of their literary work; we have in mind fiction, that is, texts with a predominance of aesthetic function, not local literature in its entirety, whose research belongs rather to the homeland, to the literary topography, or to the sphere of cultural and anthropological research.