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List of Slovak authors

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The following is a list of the most important authors of Slovak prose and drama, for a list of Slovak poets see Slovak poetry:

Table of contents
1 Middle Ages (800 – 1500)
2 Renaissance (1500-1650)
3 Baroque (1650-1780)
4 Classicism (1780-1840)
5 Romantism (1840-1850)
6 Between Romantism and Realism (1850-1875)
7 Realism (1875-1905)
8 Modernism (1905-1918)
9 Between the World Wars (1918-1948)
10 Literature after World War II (1948-1964)
11 Current literature (since 1964 )

Middle Ages (800 – 1500)

Constantine (827-869) – born in Thessaloniki
Methodius (815-885) - born in Thessaloniki
Gorazd (late 9th century)
Clement of Ohrid (late 9th century) – probably born in the Balkans
Nahum (Chrabr) (around 900) – born in the Balkans
Maurus (?-1070)

Renaissance (1500-1650)

Pavel Kyrmezer (?-1589)
Jur Tesák Mošovský (1545-1617)

Baroque (1650-1780)

Eliáš Ladiver (1633-1686)
Štefan Pilárik I (1615-1693)
Joachim Kalinka (1601-1677)
Tobiáš Masník (1640-1697)
Ján Simonides (1648-1708)
Juraj Láni (1646-1688)
Sebastián Fabricius (?)
Martin Novák (?)
Ján Rezik (?-1711)
Daniel Speer (1636-?)
Samuel Hruškovič (Samuelis Hruscowitz) (1694-1748)
Daniel Krman II (1663-1740)
Móric Beňovský (1741-1786)
Matej Bel (1684-1749)
Ján Bayer (1630-1674)
Izák Caban (1632-1707)
Daniel Sinapius-Horčička (1640-1688)
Adam František Kollár (1718-1783)
Ján Baltazár Magin (1682-1735)

Classicism (1780-1840)

Jozef Ignác Bajza (1755-1836)
Juraj Fándly (1750-1811)
Pavol Jozef Šafárik (Pavel Josef Šafařík) (1795-1861)
Karol Kuzmány (1806-1866)
Ján Chalupka (1791-1871)

Romantism (1840-1850)

Ľudovít Štúr (1815-1856)
Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817-1888)
Ján Kalinčiak (1822-1871)
Samo Tomášik (1813-1887)
Viliam Paulíny-Tóth (1826-1877)

Between Romantism and Realism (1850-1875)

Jonáš Záborský (1812-1876)
Ján Palárik-Beskydov (1822-1870)
Ľudovít Kubáni (1830-1869)
Gustáv Kazimír Zechenter (Laskomerský) (1824-1908)

Realism (1875-1905)

Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský (1847-1916)
Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová (1855-1939)
Terézia Vansová (1857-1942)
Ján Čajak (1863-1944)
Martin Kukučín (1860-1928)
Božena Slančíková-Timrava (1867-1951)
Jozef Gregor-Tajovský (1874-1940)
Ľudmila Podjavorinská (1842-1951)

Modernism (1905-1918)

Janko Jesenský (1874-1945)

Between the World Wars (1918-1948)

Štefan Krčméry (1892-1955)
Martin Rázus (1888-1937)
Ján Poničan (1902-1978)
Fraňo Kráľ (1903-1955)
Laco Novomeský (1904-1976)
Vladimír Clementis (1902-1952)
Ladislav Nádaši-Jége (1866-1940)
Jozef Cíger-Hronský (1896-1960)
Milo Urban (1904-1982)
Peter Jilemnický (1901-1949)
Ľudo Ondrejov (1901-1962)
Dobroslav Chrobák (1907-1951)
Margita Figuli (1909-?)
František Švantner (1912-1950)
Ivan Stodola (1888-1977)
Július Barč-Ivan (1909-1953)
Rudolf Dilong (1905-1986)
Ľudo Zúbek (1908-1969)

Literature after World War II (1948-1964)

František Hečko (1905-1960)
Dominik Tatarka (1913-1989)
Rudolf JašÃƒÂƒÃ‚­k (1919-1960)
Vladimír Mináč (1922)
Alfonz Bednár (1914-1989)
Ladislav Ťažký (1924)
Ladislav Mňačko (1919-1994)
Peter Karvaš (1920)
Štefan Králik (1909-1983)
Leopold Lahola (1918-1968)
Hana Zelinová (1914-2004)
Peter Sever (1924)

Current literature (since 1964 )

Mária Ďuríčková (1919-2004)
Ivan Bukovčan (1921-1975)
Hana Ponická (1922)
Andrej Chudoba (1927)
Milan Ferko (1929)
Anton Hykisch (1932)
Osvald Záhradník (1932)
Jaroslava Blažková (1933)
Ján Solovič (1934)
Vincent Šikula (1936)
Igor Rusnák (1936)
Peter Kováčik (1936)
Ján Johanides (1934)
Rudolf Sloboda (1938-1995)
Ladislav Ballek (1941)
Peter Jaroš (1940)
Jozef Repko (1940)
Milan Lasica (1940)
Július Satinský (1941 – 1992)
Ján Lenčo (1933)
Peter Ševčovič (1935)
Štefan Kasadra (1935)
Vlado Bednár (1941-1984)
Pavel Vilikovský (1941)
Pavel Hrúz (1941)
Pavol Horák (1943)
Mikuláš Kočan (1946)
Dušan Dušek (1946)
Dušan Mitana (1946)
Ivan Hudec (1947)
Jozef Puškáš (1951)