Oľga Feldeková

Oľga Feldeková, (Lukáčiová, born 28 March 1943) is a Slovak writer.

Biography
Oľga Feldeková was born on 28 March 1943 in Martin and grew up in Tvrdošín. After graduating from high school she was unable to continue her education due to restrictions placed on her by the communist regime. Instead, she worked as a manual laborer in the Tesla electronics factory in Nižná, close to Tvrdošín, where she met her fellow writer and future husband Ľubomír Feldek.

After two years of manual work she was able to commence her studies of journalism at the Comenius University. From 1977 to 1983 she worked for the youth edition of the Nové Slovo magazine, later as a screenwriter for Slovak film studios.

Since 2001, Feldeková has been a regular cast member of the satirical TV show Sedem aired on Markíza and later on TV JOJ.

Writing
Feldeková's early works were intended for children and young adults. At first she published in literary journal, her first book was Dnes vám hráme v zlatom ráme (1974) co-authored with her husband. In 1975 she published her single-author debut Rozprávky pre dievčatko. Her later works Sťahovanie na mieste (1976), Dievča a šťastie (1979) a Veverica (1985) were intended for adult readers. Her latest book Kým som šťastný (2013) represents the culmination of her embrace of magical realism evident already in Veverica.

According to the literary critic Viktor Kochol, Feldeková's writing combines fresh outlook and social critique in a way unseen in the Slovak women literature since Timrava.

Family
Feldeková met her husband, the poet Ľubomír Feldek when she was 17 years old. They have five children together. They reside in Bratislava. Following the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, they moved to a self-imposed exile in Prague for a several years to escape from violent threats by nationalists due to a poem by her husband criticizing the minister of culture Dušan Slobodník.