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Apr 26, 1872 Bzince pod Javorinou, Trenčín Region, Slovakia Died on 02 Mar 1951 (aged 78)
Czechoslovak poet, writer and children books writer
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About Ľudmila Podjavorinská
- Ludmila Podjavorinská was a pen name used by Ludmila Riznerová (April 26, 1872 – March 2, 1951), a Slovak writer considered to be the first important woman poet for her country but best known for her children's books.
- She wrote under a number of different pen names, including Božena, Damascena, L.
- Šeršelínová, L.
- Špirifangulínová, Ludka and Ludmila.The daughter of Karol Rizner, a teacher, she was born in the village of Bzince pod Javorinou.
- Her uncle Ludovít Rizner encouraged her to submit her first writing to newspapers for publication.
- Podjavorinská had three contemporary women writers as mentors: Terézia Vansová, Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová and Božena Slancíková.
- She contributed to various Slovak periodicals and translated Russian poetry into Slovak.She stayed in her home town until 1910, when she moved to Nové Mesto nad Váhom.
- For a short time around 1918, she was an official for the district Red Cross.
- Podjavorinská was a member of Živena, the first women's organization in Slovakia.
- In 1947, she was named a National Artist for Czechoslovakia.Podjavorinská died in Nové Mesto nad Váhom at the age of 78.A minor planet was named Podjavorinská in her honour.
