List of Slovak prose and drama authors

The following is a list of notable authors of Slovak prose and drama.

Baroque (1650–1780)

 * Matthias Bel (1684–1749)
 * Adam František Kollár (1718–1783)
 * Daniel Sinapius-Horčička (1640–1688)

Classicism (1780–1840)

 * Jozef Ignác Bajza (1755–1836)
 * Juraj Fándly (1750–1811)
 * Ján Chalupka (1791–1871)
 * Ján Kollár (1793–1852)
 * Pavol Jozef Šafárik (Pavel Josef Šafařík) (1795–1861)

Romanticism (1840–1850)

 * Pavol Dobšinský (1828–1885)
 * Michal Miloslav Hodža (1811–1870)
 * Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817–1888)
 * Ľudovít Štúr (1815–1856)
 * Samo Tomášik (1813–1887)

Between Romanticism and Realism (1850–1875)

 * Jakub Grajchman (1822–1897)
 * Jonáš Záborský (1812–1876)

Realism (1875–1905)

 * Janko Alexy (1894–1970)
 * Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849–1921)
 * Martin Kukučín (1860–1928)
 * Kristína Royová (1860–1936)
 * Jozef Gregor-Tajovský (1874–1940)
 * Timrava (Božena Slančíková) (1867–1951)
 * Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský (1847–1916)

Modernism (1905–1918)

 * Janko Jesenský (1874–1945)
 * Ivan Krasko (1876–1958)

Between the World Wars (1918–1948)

 * Vladimír Clementis (1902–1952)
 * Margita Figuli (1909–1995)
 * Jozef Cíger-Hronský (1896–1960)
 * Dobroslav Chrobák (1907–1951)
 * Štefan Krčméry (1892–1955)
 * Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé (1866–1940)
 * Ľudo Ondrejov (1901–1962)
 * Martin Rázus (1888–1937)
 * Ivan Stodola (1888–1977)
 * František Švantner (1912–1950)
 * Milo Urban (1904–1982)

Literature after World War II (1948–1964)

 * Jozef Dunajovec (1933–2007)
 * Andrej Brázda-Jankovský (1915–2008)
 * Katarína Lazarová (1914–1995)
 * Ladislav Mňačko (1919–1994)
 * Hana Zelinová (1914–2004)
 * Štefan Žáry (1918–2007)

Contemporary literature (1964–1995)

 * Emil Benčík (born 1933)
 * Ladislav Grosman (1921–1981)
 * Anton Hykisch (born 1932)
 * Peter Jaroš (born 1940)
 * Milan Lasica (born 1940)
 * Hana Ponická (1922–2007)
 * Miriam Roth (1910–2005)
 * Július Satinský (1941–2002)
 * Dušan Slobodník (1927–2001)
 * Ladislav Švihran (1931–2022)
 * Vojtech Zamarovský (1919–2006)
 * Zuzka Zguriška (1900–1984)

Contemporary literature (since 1995)

 * Radovan Brenkus (born 1974)
 * Juraj Červenák (born 1974)
 * Dušan Fabian (born 1975)
 * Michal Hvorecký (born 1976)
 * Jozef Karika (born 1978)
 * Ľuba Lesná (born 1954)
 * Vladimir Oravsky (born 1947)
 * Peter Pišťanek (1960–2015)
 * Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980)
 * Miroslav Šustek (born 1947)