Zofka Kveder, writer and journalist

Zofka Kveder (1878–1926), writer and journalist advocating for women’s rights, brought to the fore questions and issues that Slovene literature and society tended to marginalise. Her literary creativity is representative of the Central European “moderna” movement of her time. Her works shed a new light on the life of women, describing various stages of a woman’s life, from young to old age. Her characters also represent variety in terms of their class identity.

Legacy

Zofka Kveder was born in Ljubljana. She started publishing her literary texts in the first Slovenian women' s magazine Slovenka. Soon after that, her stories were also published in German language magazines; later, she also published in the Czech, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Polish and Serbian language publications. She was also a prominent dramatist whose texts were staged in Ljubljana, Prague, Zagreb and Belgrade.

As a translator, she was among the first who translated works of Ivan Cankar, Janko Kersnik and Ivan Tavčar into German language. She also translated numerous works from Czech and Croatian literature into Slovenian.

She was also active as a journalist, critic and an editor, frequently advocating women’s rights. She died in 1926 in Zagreb and was the first woman to be included in the series of collected works of canonical Slovenian poets and writers published by the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies.

Read also

• A Short Overview of Slovene Literature from Romanticism to Modernism

See also

• Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies
• City of Women Association for Promotion of Women in Culture

External links

• Zofka Kveder on Wikipedia