Ján BottoW
Ján Botto

Ján Botto was a Slovak poet, writer of the Štúr generation and co-founder of the first Slovak gymnasium in Revúca.

Radovan BrenkusW
Radovan Brenkus

Radovan Brenkus is a Slovak writer, translator and critic.

Samo ChalupkaW
Samo Chalupka

Samo Chalupka was a Slovak romantic poet.

Jonatán Dobroslav ČipkaW
Jonatán Dobroslav Čipka

Jonatán Dobroslav Čipka was a Slovak priest, poet and author.

Pavol DobšinskýW
Pavol Dobšinský

Pavol Dobšinský was a Slovak collector of folklore and writer belonging to the period of Romanticism and the Štúr generation. He is perhaps best known for creating the largest and most complete collection of Slovak folktales, Prostonárodnie slovenské povesti, self-published in a series of eight books from 1880 to 1883.

Ján Francisci-RimavskýW
Ján Francisci-Rimavský

Ján Samuel Francisci-Rimavský, was a Slovak poet, novelist, translator, journalist and politician, who collaborated with the nationalist leader, Ľudovít Štúr. He used numerous pseudonyms, including Janko Francisci, Janko Rimavský, Slavoľub and Vratislav Rimavský.

Eliáš GalajdaW
Eliáš Galajda

Eliáš Galajda Ukrainian: Галайда Илля, was Ukrainian writer with Slovak citizenship.

Michal Miloslav HodžaW
Michal Miloslav Hodža

Michal Miloslav Hodža was a Slovak national revivalist, Protestant priest, poet, linguist, and representative of the Slovak national movement in 1840s as a member of "the trinity" Štúr-Hurban-Hodža. Michal Miloslav Hodža is also the uncle of the Czechoslovak politician Milan Hodža.

Ján HollýW
Ján Hollý

Ján Hollý was a Slovak poet and translator. He was the first greater Slovak poet to write exclusively in the newly standardized literary Slovak language. His predecessors mostly wrote in various regional versions of Czech, Slovakized Czech or Latin. Hollý translated Virgil's Aeneid and wrote his own epic poetry in alexandrine verse to show that the Slovak language recently standardized by Anton Bernolák was capable of expressing complex poetic forms.

Pavol HudákW
Pavol Hudák

Pavol Hudák was a Slovak poet, journalist and publicist.

Svetozár Hurban-VajanskýW
Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský

Svetozár Miloslav Hurban, pen name Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský was a Slovak poet, lawyer and nationalist newspaper editor who was twice imprisoned. Born in Hlboké, he was the son of Jozef Miloslav Hurban.

Pavol Országh HviezdoslavW
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav

Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav was a Slovak poet, dramatist, translator, and for a short time, member of the Czechoslovak parliament. Originally, he wrote in a traditional style, but later became influenced by parnassism and modernism.

Janko JesenskýW
Janko Jesenský

Baron Ján Jesenský was a Slovak lower nobleman of the House of Jeszenszky, poet, prose writer, translator, and politician. He was a prominent member of the Slovak national movement.

Ján KollárW
Ján Kollár

Ján Kollár was a Slovak writer, archaeologist, scientist, politician, and main ideologist of Pan-Slavism.

Janko KráľW
Janko Kráľ

Janko Kráľ was one of the most significant and most radical Slovak romantic poets of the Ľudovít Štúr generation and a national activist.

Ivan KraskoW
Ivan Krasko

Ivan Krasko was a Slovak poet, translator and representative of modernism in Slovakia.

Štefan KrčméryW
Štefan Krčméry

Štefan Krčméry was a Slovak poet, literary critic, historian, journalist, translator, and administrator of Matica slovenská. He was born in Mošovce and died in Pezinok.

Juraj KuniakW
Juraj Kuniak

Juraj Kuniak is a Slovak poet and writer. He was born in Košice, Slovakia.

Anna Lacková-ZoraW
Anna Lacková-Zora

Anna Lacková-Zora was a Slovak author. She published under the pseudonyms of Zora-Lacková, aunt Zora, Zora and Lacková-Zora. At first she worked as a bank clerk, but then fully devoted herself to her literature work, which she began during World War I.

Laco NovomeskýW
Laco Novomeský

Laco Novomeský was a Slovak poet, writer, publicist and communist politician.

Janko MatúškaW
Janko Matúška

Janko Matúška was a Slovak poet, activist, occasional playwright, and clerk of the court. He is best known as the author of the Slovak national anthem, Nad Tatrou sa blýska based on melody of Slovak folk song Kopala studienku.

Martin RázusW
Martin Rázus

Martin Rázus was a Slovak poet, dramatist, writer, politician and Lutheran priest

Radoslav RochallyiW
Radoslav Rochallyi

Radoslav Rochallyi is a Slovak philosopher, writer and poet.

Vladimír RoyW
Vladimír Roy

Vladimír Roy was a Slovak poet, translator and opera librettist.

Milan RúfusW
Milan Rúfus

Milan Rúfus was a Slovak poet, essayist, translator, children's writer and academic. Rúfus is the most translated Slovak poet into other languages.

Pavel Jozef ŠafárikW
Pavel Jozef Šafárik

Pavel Jozef Šafárik was an ethnic Slovak philologist, poet, literary historian, historian and ethnographer in the Kingdom of Hungary. He was one of the first scientific Slavists.

Andrej SládkovičW
Andrej Sládkovič

Andrej Sládkovič was a Slovak poet, critic, publicist and translator.

Samo TomášikW
Samo Tomášik

Samo Tomášik was a Slovak romantic poet and prosaist.

Miroslav VálekW
Miroslav Válek

Miroslav Válek was a Slovak poet, publicist and politician. He was also the Minister of Culture in the government of Slovak Socialistic Republic within the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.

Andrej ŽarnovW
Andrej Žarnov

Andrej Žarnov, born František Šubík, was a Slovak Catholic modernist writer and physician.