Margita Figuli

Margita Figuli was born on 2 October 1909 in Vyšný Kubín, into a peasant family. A graduate of the commercial academy of Banská Bystrica in 1928, she went to work in a bank in Bratislava and became an English-language correspondence clerk at the Tatra banka. In 1941 the bank dismissed her for political reasons, after the publication of her anti-war story Olovený vták; she then devoted herself to writing and translation, sometimes under the name Oľga Morena. Artist emeritus in 1964, national artist in 1974, she died in Bratislava in March 1995.

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• NovelThree Chestnut HorsesTri gaštanové koneMargita Figuli · 1940Literature