Hana Ponická

Hana Ponická was born on 15 July 1922 in Halič, near Lučenec, the daughter of a judge. She passed her school-leaving exam in 1940 and began medicine in Bratislava without finishing it, and took part in the uprising of 1944. In Rome from 1948 to 1950 with her husband, the writer Štefan Žáry, she then translated from Hungarian, French, German and Italian and wrote for children. In 1956, at the Prague congress, she supported Seifert and Tatarka. Removed from her post in 1972, expelled from the writers' association after 1977, tried in 1989 with the five of Bratislava, she died in Banská Bystrica on 21 August 2007.

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• DiaryLukavické zápiskyHana Ponická · 1989not translated into EnglishLiterature