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Božena Slančíková Timrava
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Slovenská prozaička a dramatička.

Narodila sa v rodine evanjelického farára Pavla Slančíka, ktorý bol spoluzakladateľom Matice slovenskej. Mala desať súrodencov (jej brat Bohuslav, evanjelický farár, b…

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George MacDonald
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George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet and Christian Congregational minister. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carro…
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bes…
Alexander Pushkin
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Works of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.

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Molière
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Sophisticated comedies of French playwright Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, include Tartuffe (1664), The Misanthrope (1666), and The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670).

French literar…
Romain Rolland
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Varied works of French writer Romain Rolland include Jean Christophe (1904-1912), a series of satirical novels; he won the Nobel Prize of 1915 for literature.

The committee awarded him "as a tribu…
Honoré de Balzac
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French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine .

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Milo Urban
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Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav
Slovak poet, playwright, writer, translator, lawyer and honorary president of Matica Slovenská. Hviezdoslav is one of the most important figures of Slovak literature of the second half of the 19th and…
John Green
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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

John Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the American Libr…
Ladislav Mňačko
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Alfonz Bednár
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Dobroslav Chrobák
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Slovenský prozaik, esejista, kultúrny publicista a literárny kritik.

Narodil sa ako druhé zo štyroch detí v rodine krajčíra a osvetového pracovníka. Študoval na gymnáziu v Rožňave a Liptovskom Mikuláši…
Margita Figuli
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Margita Figuli, za slobodna Margita Figuliová, po sobáši Margita Šustrová, pseudonymy Morena, Oľga Morena bola slovenská spisovateľka, prekladateľka a autorka literatúry pre deti a mládež.

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Martin Kukučín
Prozaik, dramatik, publicista, lekár, významný predstaviteľ slovenského literárneho realizmu
Ivan Bukovčan
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Ján Botto
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Básnik, najvýraznejší predstaviteľ slovenského literárneho romantizmu, autor balád a povestí inšpirovaných ľudovou poéziou.
Jozef Gregor Tajovský
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Spisovateľ, prozaik, dramatik, vedúca osobnosť druhej vlny slovenského literárneho realizmu

Pochádzal z rodiny remeselníka a hutníckeho dozorcu. Vyrastal však u starého otca Štefana Grešku, hutníckeho …
Ján Palárik
Slovenský dramatik a publicista.

Pochádzal z tesárskej rodiny, a tak počiatočné klasické i hudobné vzdelanie dostal od rodičov. V klasickom vzdelávaní pokračoval v Prešove, Kecskeméte, teológiu študova…
Gejza Vámoš
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Jozef Cíger Hronský
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Svetozár Hurban Vajanský
Vlastným menom Svetozár Miloslav Hurban, syn Jozefa Miloslava Hurbana. Bol to literárny vedec, publicista, redaktor, básnik, prozaik, literárny kritik a právnik a bol spolutvorcom modernej slovenskej …