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)
  • 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 (1932–2024)
  • Peter Jaroš (born 1940)
  • Milan Lasica (1940–2021)
  • 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)
  • Jozef Ján Matejka (born 1949)
  • Vladimir Oravsky (born 1947)
  • Peter Pišťanek (1960–2015)
  • Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980)
  • Miroslav Šustek (born 1947)

See also

  • List of Slovak poets