List of Slovak prose and drama authors

The following is a list of notable authors of Slovak 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)
• Andrej Brázda-Jankovský (1915–2008)
• 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 (born 1932)
• Peter Jaroš (born 1940)
• Milan Lasica (born 1940)
• Hana Ponická (1922–2007)
• Miriam Roth (1910–2005)
• Július Satinský (1941–2002)
• Dušan Slobodník (1927–2001)
• Ladislav Švihran (born 1931)
• 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)
• Vladimir Oravsky (born 1947)
• Peter Pišťanek (1960–2015)
• Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980)
• Miroslav Šustek (born 1947)

See also[]

• List of Slovak poets