Margita Figuli (2 October 1909 – 27 March 1995; known after her marriage as Margita Šustrová and by the penname Ol'ga Morena) was a
Slovak prose
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writer, translator and author of literature for children and young people.
Biography
Margita Figuli was born in a farmer's family in Vyšný Kubín. After her studies in
Banská Bystrica
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, she moved to Bratislava to work in a bank, while writing; her earliest stories were published in 1937.
[ Encyclopedia.com website, ''Figuli, Margita (1909-1995)'']
/ref> She then worked as an English correspondent at Tatrabanka until 1941 when she was fired due to the publication of ''Olovený vták'' which publicly the German invasion of Poland; after this then she focused on writing and translating.
She died in Bratislava
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in 1995.
Works
Writing
Margita Figuli is a significant representative of the Slovak school of naturalism. Her works started to be published in 1930 in ''Slovenská nedeľa'' (Slovak Sunday), ''Elán'' (Spirit), ''Slovenské pohľady'' (Slovak views) and other periodicals. Love, compassion, and current social problems were prevalent in her writing. A devout Christian,Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
* Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...
, and other languages.
List of selected works
Prose
* 1932 – ''List od otca'' (Letter from father)
* 1938 – ''Čierny býk'' (Black bull)
* 1940 – ''Olovený vták'' (Lead bird)
* 1940 – ''Tri gaštanové kone'' ('' Three Chestnut Horses'')
* 1942 – ''Tri noci a tri sny'' (Three nights and three dreams)
* 1946 – ''Babylon'' (Parts 1 and 2) GoodReads website, ''Margita Figuli''
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* 1973 – ''Rebeka'' (Rebecca)
* 1974 – ''Vietor v nás'' (Wind within us)
For children and young people
* 1963 – ''Môj prvý list'' (My first letter)
* 1964 – ''Ariadnina niť'' (Ariadna's yarn)
* 1980 – ''Balada o Jurovi Jánošíkovi'' (Ballad about Juro Jánošík Juro may refer to:
* Juro Novelty Company, American toy manufacturer
People with the name
* Juro Adlešič (1884–1968), Slovenian lawyer and politician
* Jūrō Gotō (1887–1984), Japanese military officer
* Juro Janosik (1688–1713), Slov ...
)
References
1909 births
1995 deaths
People from Dolný Kubín District
20th-century Slovak women writers
20th-century Slovak writers
Slovak children's writers
Slovak women children's writers
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