The following is a list of notable

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Slovak literature Slovak literature is the literature of Slovakia. History Middle Ages The first monuments of literature from territory now included in present-day Slovakia are from the time of Great Moravia (from 863 to the early 10th century). Authors from this ...

Renaissance (1500–1650)

Martin Rakovský Martin Rakovský ( hu, Rakovszky Márton, lat, Martinus Rakocius de Rakow or Martinus Rakowsky de Rakow; ''c''. 1535 – 28 September 1579) was a Renaissance-era Hungarian poet and humanist scholar during the mid-16th century. Life He was born ...

(1535–1579) *

Vavrinec Benedikt z Nedožier Vavrinec ( hu, Lőrincvágása, until 1899: ; rue, Ваврінець) is a village and municipality in Vranov nad Topľou District in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 136 ...

(Laurentius Benedictus Nudozierinus) (1555–1615)

Baroque (1650–1780)

Juraj Tranovský Juraj is a given name used in a number of Slavic languages, including Czech, Slovak, and Croatian. Pronounced "You-rye" but with a trilled r. The English equivalent of the name is George. Notable people * Juraj Chmiel, Czech diplomat and politicia ...

or Tranoscius (1592–1637) *

Daniel Sinapius-Horčička Daniel Sinapius-Horčička (August 3, 1640 – January 27, 1688) was a Slovak baroque writer, poet, dramatist, composer of hymns and evangelical Protestant preacher who lived during the mid 17th century in what is modern Slovakia. Life Daniel ...

(1640–1688) *

Hugolín Gavlovič Hugolín Gavlovič (born as Martin Gavlovič) (11 November 1712, Czarny Dunajec – 4 June 1787, Horovce) was a Slovak Franciscan priest who authored religious, moral, and educational writings in the contemporary West Slovak vernacular, and ...

(1712–1787)

Classicism (1780–1840)

Pavel Jozef Šafárik Pavel Jozef Šafárik ( sk, Pavol Jozef Šafárik; 13 May 1795 – 26 June 1861) was an ethnic Slovak philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first scientific Slavists. Famil ...

(1795–1861) *

Ján Kollár Ján Kollár ( hu, Kollár János; 29 July 1793 – 24 January 1852) was a Slovak writer (mainly poet), archaeologist, scientist, priest, politician, and main ideologist of Pan-Slavism. Life He studied at the Lutheran Lyceum in Pressburg ...

(1793–1852) *

Ján Hollý __NOTOC__ Ján Hollý (contemporary orthography: Gán Hollí; 24 March 1785, Bur-Szent-Miklos – 14 April 1849, Jókő) was a Slovak poet and translator. He was the first greater Slovak poet to write exclusively in the newly standardized lite ...

(1785–1849)

Romantism (1840–1850)

Ľudovít Štúr Ľudovít Velislav Štúr (; hu, Stur Lajos; 28 October 1815 – 12 January 1856), known in his era as Ludevít Štúr, (pen names : B. Dunajský, Bedlivý Ludorob, Boleslav Záhorský, Brat Slovenska, Ein Slave, Ein ungarischer Slave, Karl Wi ...

(1815–1856) *

Samo Chalupka Samo Chalupka (27 February 1812, Horná Lehota, Brezno District – 19 May 1883, Horná Lehota) was a Slovak Lutheran priest and romantic poet. Life Samo Chalupka was a younger brother of Ján Chalupka, another Slovak writer. Samo stu ...

(1812–1883) *

Andrej Sládkovič Andrej Sládkovič (born as Andrej Braxatoris, pseudonyms Andrej Braxatoris-Sládkovič, Andrej Sládkovič, Ondřej Krasislav Sládkovič; 31 March 1820 – 20 April 1872) was a Slovak poet, critic, publicist, translator and Lutheran priest. L ...

(1820–1872) *

Janko Kráľ Janko Kráľ ( hu, Král János; 24 April 1822 in Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš (now Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia) – 23 May 1876 in Zlaté Moravce) was one of the most significant and most radical Slovak romantic poets of the Ľudovít Št� ...

(1822–1876) *

Ján Botto Ján Botto (January 27, 1829, Vyšný Skálnik – April 28, 1881, Banská Bystrica) was a Slovak poet, writer of the Štúr generation and co-founder of the first Slovak gymnasium in Revúca. Born into a family of farmers, he began to attend L ...

(1829–1881) * Janko Matúška (1821–1877) *

Michal Miloslav Hodža Michal Miloslav Hodža ( hu, Hodzsa Mihály Milos; 22 September 1811 – 26 March 1870) was a Slovak national revivalist, Lutheran pastor, poet, linguist, and representative of the Slovak national movement in 1840s as a member of "the trinity" ...

(1811–1870)

Realism (1875–1905)

* Pavol Országh-Hviezdoslav (1849–1921) * Martin Kukučín (1860–1928) *

Janko Jesenský Baron Ján Jesenský (30 December 1874 in Tučiansky Svätý Martin ( hu, Túrócszentmárton), Kingdom of Hungary (present day Martin, Slovakia) – 27 December 1945 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) was a Slovak lower nobleman of the House of ...

(1874–1945) *

Ľudmila Podjavorinská Ľudmila Podjavorinská was a pen name used by Ľudmila Riznerová (26 April 1872 – 2 March 1951), a Slovakia, Slovak writer considered to be the first important woman poet for her country but best known for her children's books. She wrote ...

(1872–1951)

Modernism (1905–1918)

Ivan Krasko Ivan Krasko (real name Ján Botto, pseudonyms ''Bohdana J. Potokinová'', ''Ivan Krasko'', ''Janko Cigáň'', 12 July 1876 in Lukovištia (''Lukovistye'') – 3 March 1958 in Bratislava) was a Slovak poet, translator and representative of mode ...

(1876–1958) *

(1874–1945) * Martin Orgoník-Kunovský (1887–1916)

Between the World Wars (1918–1948)

* Štefan Krčméry (1892–1955) *

Martin Rázus Martin Rázus (pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or ...

(1888–1937) * Ján Poničan (1902–1978) * Peter Jilemnický (1901–1949) *

Laco Novomeský Laco Novomeský (full name: Ladislav Novomeský) (27 December 1904, Budapest — 4 September 1976, Bratislava) was a Slovak poet, writer, publicist and communist politician. Novomeský was a member of the DAV group; after The Second World War he ...

(1904–1976) *

Maša Haľamová Maša Haľamová (August 28, 1908 – July 17, 1995) was a Slovak Modernism, modernist poet. One of Slovakia's best-known 20th-century poets, she is considered particularly representative of the interwar period in Slovak literature. Biography M ...

(1908–1995)

Surrealism

Štefan Žáry Štefan Žáry (December 12, 1918 in Poniky – August 25, 2007 in Bratislava) was a Slovak poet, prosaist, translator and essayist; author of erotic lyric poetry, patriotic and anti-war poems, reminiscential prose. In his patriotic poems, he ...

(1918–2007) * Ján Brezina (1917–1997)

Contemporary (since the 1960s)

Miroslav Válek Miroslav Válek (July 17, 1927 – January 27, 1991) was a Slovak poet, publicist and politician. He was also the Minister of Culture in the government of Slovak Socialist Republic within the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Biography Miroslav ...

(1927–1991) *

Milan Rúfus Milan Rúfus (December 10, 1928 – January 11, 2009) was a Slovak poet, essayist, translator, children's writer and academic. Rúfus is the most translated Slovak poet into other languages. Life Milan Rúfus was born to a family of brickla ...

(1928–2009) *

Ľubomír Feldek Ľubomír Feldek (* 9 October 1936, Žilina, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak poet, writer, playwright, and translator. He is married to Oľga Feldeková. Feldek is the author of several books of poetry (''Kriedový kruh'', ''Paracelsus'', and ''Mil ...

(born 1936) *

Milan Richter Milan Richter (born 25 July 1948 in Bratislava) is a Slovak writer, playwright, translator, publisher and a former high-ranking diplomat. Life Early years Richter was born in Bratislava into a Slovak-Moravian Jewish family that was almost extermina ...

(born 1948) * Jana Kantorová-Báliková (born 1950) * Juraj Kuniak (born 1955) * Dana Podracká (born 1954) *

Viera Prokešová Viera Prokešová (2 August 1957 – 31 December 2008) was a Slovak writer and translator. She was born in Bratislava and studied Slovak and Bulgarian at Comenius University. She worked as a producer at the Puppet Theatre in Nitra for a year ...

(1957–2008) *

Pavol Hudák Pavol Hudák (7 October 1959 in Vranov nad Toplou, Czechoslovakia – 18 January 2011 in Poprad, Slovakia) was a Slovak poet, journalist and publicist. Biography He grew up and studied grammar school in Vyšný Žipov. After high school in the ...

(1959–2011) * Eva Kováčová (1951–2010)

Contemporary poetry (since 1995)

Radovan Brenkus Radovan Brenkus (born 30 January 1974, Bardejov) is a Slovak writer, translator and critic. Biography The author finished the study at Science faculty of P. J. Šafárik University, in mathematics and physics. He worked as a teacher in Koši ...

(born 1974) *

Radoslav Rochallyi Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1 May 1980), Bardejov , Czechoslovakia is a Slovak philosopher, writer and poet living in the Czech Republic. Biography Rochallyi was born in Bardejov, located in the Prešov region of what is today the Slovak Rep ...

(born 1980)

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