List of Slovak authors

The following is a list of notable Slovak writers.

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Prose and drama

Baroque (1650–1780)

• Matthias Bel (1684–1749)
• Adam František Kollár (1718–1783)
• Daniel Sinapius-Horčička (1640–1688)

Classicism (1780–1840)

• Jozef Ignác Bajza (1755–1836)
• Juraj Fándly (1750–1811)
• Ján Chalupka (1791–1871)
• Ján Kollár (1793–1852)
• Pavol Jozef Šafárik (Pavel Josef Šafařík) (1795–1861)

Romanticism (1840–1850)

• Pavol Dobšinský (1828–1885)
• Michal Miloslav Hodža (1811–1870)
• Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817–1888)
• Ľudovít Štúr (1815–1856)
• Samo Tomášik (1813–1887)

Between Romanticism and Realism (1850–1875)

• Jakub Grajchman (1822–1897)
• Jonáš Záborský (1812–1876)

Realism (1875–1905)

• Janko Alexy (1894–1970)
• Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849–1921)
• Martin Kukučín (1860–1928)
• Kristína Royová (1860–1936)
• Jozef Gregor-Tajovský (1874–1940)
• Timrava (Božena Slančíková) (1867–1951)
• Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský (1847–1916)

Modernism (1905–1918)

• Janko Jesenský (1874–1945)
• Ivan Krasko (1876–1958)

Between the World Wars (1918–1948)

• Vladimír Clementis (1902–1952)
• Margita Figuli (1909–1995)
• Jozef Cíger-Hronský (1896–1960)
• Dobroslav Chrobák (1907–1951)
• Štefan Krčméry (1892–1955)
• Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé (1866–1940)
• Ľudo Ondrejov (1901–1962)
• Martin Rázus (1888–1937)
• Ivan Stodola (1888–1977)
• František Švantner (1912–1950)
• Milo Urban (1904–1982)

Literature after World War II (1948–1964)

• Jozef Dunajovec (1933–2007)
• Katarína Lazarová (1914–1995)
• Ladislav Mňačko (1919–1994)
• Hana Zelinová (1914–2004)
• Štefan Žáry (1918–2007)

Contemporary literature (1964–1995)

• Emil Benčík (born 1933)
• Ladislav Grosman (1921–1981)
• Anton Hykisch (1932–2024)
• Peter Jaroš (born 1940)
• Milan Lasica (1940–2021)
• Hana Ponická (1922–2007)
• Miriam Roth (1910–2005)
• Július Satinský (1941–2002)
• Dušan Slobodník (1927–2001)
• Ladislav Švihran (1931–2022)
• Vojtech Zamarovský (1919–2006)
• Zuzka Zguriška (1900–1984)

Contemporary literature (since 1995)

• Radovan Brenkus (born 1974)
• Juraj Červenák (born 1974)
• Dušan Fabian (born 1975)
• Michal Hvorecký (born 1976)
• Jozef Karika (born 1978)
• Ľuba Lesná (born 1954)
• Jozef Ján Matejka (born 1949)
• Vladimir Oravsky (born 1947)
• Peter Pišťanek (1960–2015)
• Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980)
• Miroslav Šustek (born 1947)

Poetry

Renaissance (1500–1650)

• Martin Rakovský (1535–1579)
• Vavrinec Benedikt z Nedožier (Laurentius Benedictus Nudozierinus) (1555–1615)

Baroque (1650–1780)

• Juraj Tranovský or Tranoscius (1592–1637)
• Daniel Sinapius-Horčička (1640–1688)
• Hugolín Gavlovič (1712–1787)

Classicism (1780–1840)

• Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795–1861)
• Ján Kollár (1793–1852)
• Ján Hollý (1785–1849)

Romanticism (1840–1850)

• Ľudovít Štúr (1815–1856)
• Samo Chalupka (1812–1883)
• Andrej Sládkovič (1820–1872)
• Janko Kráľ (1822–1876)
• Ján Botto (1829–1881)
• Janko Matúška (1821–1877)
• Michal Miloslav Hodža (1811–1870)

Realism (1875–1905)

• Pavol Országh-Hviezdoslav (1849–1921)
• Martin Kukučín (1860–1928)
• Janko Jesenský (1874–1945)
• Ľudmila Podjavorinská (1872–1951)

Modernism (1905–1918)

• Ivan Krasko (1876–1958)
• Janko Jesenský (1874–1945)
• Martin Orgoník-Kunovský (1887–1916)

Between the World Wars (1918–1948)

• Štefan Krčméry (1892–1955)
• Martin Rázus (1888–1937)
• Ján Poničan (1902–1978)
• Peter Jilemnický (1901–1949)
• Laco Novomeský (1904–1976)
• Fraňo Kráľ (1903–1955)
• Maša Haľamová (1908–1995)

• Štefan Žáry (1918–2007)
• Ján Brezina (1917–1997)

Contemporary (since the 1960s)

• Krista Bendová (1923 –1988)
• Miroslav Válek (1927–1991)
• Milan Rúfus (1928–2009)
• Ľubomír Feldek (born 1936)
• Milan Richter (born 1948)
• Jana Kantorová-Báliková (born 1950)
• Juraj Kuniak (born 1955)
• Dana Podracká (born 1954)
• Viera Prokešová (1957–2008)
• Pavol Hudák (1959–2011)
• Eva Kováčová (1951–2010)

Contemporary poetry (since 1995)

• Radovan Brenkus (born 1974)
• Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980)

See also

• List of national poetries
• Slovak prose