Margita Figuli is considered to be the best female contemporary Slovak novelist and was voted Nnational artist in 1974. After a collection of psychological short stories Pokuenie (Temptation, 1937), she excelled at lyrical prose, as demonstrated in her legendary novel Tri gastanove 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 Janoníkovi (The Ballad of Janonik, 1980).
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