Marja Holecyová (born Mária Holecyová 28 August 1988) is a Slovak mathematician and fantasy writer.

Education

Holecyová was born in Nitra. She studied Mathematics at the

Comenius University Comenius University Bratislava () is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is named after Jan Amos Comenius, a 17th-century ...

. Her PhD thesis ''Maximum Principle for Infinite Horizon Discrete Time Optimal Control Problems'' was supervised by professor Pavel Brunovský and defended in 2016.

Writing

Holecyová started writing

Harry Potter ''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven Fantasy literature, fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young Magician (fantasy), wizard, Harry Potter (character), Harry Potter, and his friends ...

fan fiction Fan fiction or fanfiction, also known as fan fic, fanfic, fic or FF, is fiction typically written in an amateur capacity by fans as a form of fan labor, unauthorized by, but based on, an existing work of fiction. The author uses copyrighted ...

as a 16 years old under the pseudonym Marja Holecyová. Encouraged by the popularity of her writing she send a manuscript of her own fantasy story set in

Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

and based on local mythology Mariotovi dediči (Heirs of Mariot) to the Slovak branch of Czech fantasy and sci-fi published Fragment at the age of 20. The success of the book resulted in three sequels published over the course of 2010 and 2011. In 2016, she published a

historical fantasy Historical fantasy is a category of fantasy and genre of historical fiction that incorporates fantastic elements (such as magic (fantasy), magic) into a more "realistic" narrative. There is much crossover with other subgenres of fantasy; those c ...

novel set in the 16th century

Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coro ...

called Korene Hriechu (Roots of sin)

References

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