Eva Kováčová (née Eva Šelmecová, 14 July 1951 in Rimavská Sobota – 12 February 2010 in Bratislava) was a Slovak poet.[1]
Kováčová graduated in Pedagogy from Matej Bel University in 1978. Until 1980 she worked for the publisher Slovenský spisovateľ, later for the Pravda daily.[2]
She published her first poems in the Nové Slovo newspaper. In 1973 she published a book of poems about love Striedavo oblačno (Partly cloudy), followed by Zastavenie v čase (A stop in time, 1978), Vážne vášne (Serius passions, 1982) and Labutia Pieseň (Swan song, 1996). She contributed poetry to Rimavskou dolinou (Through the Rimava valley), a photobook about her home region. In 2005 she published an autobiography Príbehy Evy Šelmecovej (Stories of Eva Šelmecová).[3]
References
edit- ^ Aktuality.sk. "ÚMRTIE: Posledná rozlúčka s poetkou Kováčovou v stredu". Aktuality.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 26 September 2022.
- ^ "Eva Kováčová – poetka, spisovateľka – Gemersko-malohontské osvetové stredisko" (in Slovak). Retrieved 26 September 2022.
- ^ "Opustila nás Eva Kováčová". Literárne informačné centrum (in Slovak). 6 August 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
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