Anna Lacková-Zora was a Slovak author

Prose

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. She published under the pseudonym

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s 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

World War I

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After her first collection of poems (Jarné spevy) she wrote novella

Novella

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s and novel

Novel

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s on topics concerning women (Myšacia bundička, Pútnice idú žitím). In her historical

History

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 prose

Prose

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 (Anička Jurkovičová, Z čirej lásky) Lacková-Zora captured the movement around Ľudovít Štúr

Ludovít Štúr

Ľudovít Štúr , known in his era as Ludevít Velislav Štúr, was the leader of the Slovak national revival in the 19th century, the author of the Slovak language standard eventually leading to the contemporary Slovak literary language...

 in Slovak

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 and interslavic context.

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