Olga Slivková (née Čarnogurská; 9 September 1936 – 23 April 2024) was a Slovak journalist.

Biography

Her father

Pavol Čarnogurský Pavol Čarnogurský (22 January 1908—27 December 1992) was a influential Slovak People's Party politician in the Slovak State and afterwards an anti-communist dissident. He was a member of the Slovak parliament from 1939 to 1945, including when ...

was a politician in the

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under Nazi rule. In her early career she worked as a teacher, translator and

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, author of pedagogical literature and textbooks. She was a co-author of the textbook

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for primary schools, published by the Slovak Pedagogical Institute. During her career, she prepared radio contributions mainly for the youth and education editorial departments and the literary and music editorial department, from the 1960s to the 1980s, as reported by

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. Slivková was the editor of the Czechoslovak Radio in

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. Slivková co-founded the renewed Scout Guild in

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after 1989 and was involved in the Slovak Catholic Charity. Like her husband,

Martin Slivka Martin Slivka (1 November 1929 in Spišský Štiavnik – 23 September 2002 in Bratislava Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the f ...

, she was known as a promoter of Slovak folklore. She was a Roman Catholic.

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