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100th anniversary of the birth of Margita Figuli, writer (1909-1995)   
Countries : Slovakia
Year : 2009
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Margita Figuli is considered to be the best contemporary Slovak female novelist and was voted “national artist” in 1974. After a collection of psychological short stories Pokušenie (Temptation, 1937), she excelled at lyrical prose, as demonstrated in her legendary novel Tri gaštanové kone (Three Chestnut Horses, 1940), the monumental history of Babylon in four volumes (1946), and Mladost’ (Youth, 1956), based on her childhood memories. She has also published a children’s book dedicated to the Slovak Robin Hood Balada o Jurovi Jánošíkovi (The Ballad of Jánošik, 1980).
  • Updated:29-05-2008 1:52 pm
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