Name Zofka Kveder | Role Writer | |
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Occupation writer, playwright, journalist Notable works Misterij zene, Odsevi, Njeno zivljenje, Iz nasih krajev, Amerikanci Died November 21, 1926, Zagreb, Croatia | ||
Zofka Kveder (22 April 1878 – 21 November 1926) was a writer, playwright, translator and journalist who wrote in Slovene and later in life also in Croatian. She is considered one of the first Slovene women writers and feminists
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Kveder was born in Ljubljana and spent most of her childhood in rural Lower Carniola before she was sent to a convent school in Ljubljana. In 1897 she found work in Ljubljana. In 1899 she first moved to Trieste and then to Bern where she enrolled in the university, but was unable to support herself financially and headed for Munich and then Prague. There she met her future husband Vladimir Jelovsek, a Croatian medical student with whom she moved to Zagreb in 1906. She later remarried to the Croatian politician Juraj Demetrovic. In Prague she published her first book of short stories Misterij zene (The Mystery of a Woman).
In Slovene literature her encouragement of young writers at the time such as Prezihov Voranc and France Bevk in her role as the editor of the Prague published journal Domaci prijatelj is also acknowledged. She also translated some of Janko Kersnik and Ivan Cankar's work into German as well as Czech and Croatian plays into Slovene.