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In 2024 it will be 190 years since several of the leading figures of national and cultural life in Slovakia came together to establish the Society of Slovak Language and Literature Lovers (Spolok milovníkov reči a literatúry slovenskej). The paper traces the functioning of the society in the various periods that shaped it in many ways. When Ján Kollár and Martin Hamuljak founded it, the aim was to raise awareness of Slovaks’ native language and promote the activity of the Bernolák group and leaders of the so called “Czechoslovak orientation”. One of the most important outcomes of their work was publishing of the Zora almanac from 1835, although its run ceased in 1840 for financial reasons. The society’s activities began to decline in the 1840s and it was wound up in 1850. The society’s activities made an evident contribution to Slovak literary life and laid important foundations for the following generation around Štúr. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jaroslav Hašek (1883 -- 1923), one of the most distinctive personalities of Czech literature, became known mainly because of the creation of the Dobrý vojak Švejk (Good Soldier Švejk). On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth and within the framework of the Museum of Czech Literature project in Prague, an overview of publications devoted to his life and work -- Bibliografie Jaroslava Haška (Bibliography of Jaroslav Hašek) -- was created. The bibliography entitled Jaroslav Hašek na Slovensku (Jaroslav Hašek in Slovakia), containing records of his life and work in the Slovak press from 1921 -- 1980, is a significant publication. The authors of the paper, this time on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Hašek's death, present a personal bibliography of the writer for the years 1981 -- 2020. Based on an extensive overview of the publications, it is clear that Hašek was a personality whose message is, even today, applicable in many ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on the writer, painter and publicist, Janko Alexy, on the 130th anniversary of his birth. His estate includes a number of personal me- moirs related to Martin, the city where he worked. The aim of the paper is to present the original of Alexy's memoirs Artists of the Martin city, in which the painter Milan Thomka Mitrovský and Miloš Alexander Bazovský are also mentioned. The memoirs, which describe the events in art community of Martin city of that time, are a source of important historical contexts regarding personalities who in many ways contributed to the forming of Slovak culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors present contributions to the bibliography of the literary and journalistic works by Vladimír Mináč, and the books and articles in periodical publications about the writer from 1997 to 2022, which builds on the heretofore processed personal bibliographies of the writer's oeuvre published in his lifetime and shortly after his death. These records from the databases of the Slovak National Bibliography, the SNL Digital Library portal, catalogues of Slovak libraries and other information sources are arranged primarily in chronological order, and subsequently in alphabetical order according to the titles of the articles. This supplementary material represents a significant source for research of the life and work of this culturally and politically active writer and publicist. Vladimír Mináč's personal bibliography for the period from 1997 to 2022 compiled in such a manner is a testimony to the still living legacy of writer's prose work, particularly his historical-philosophical essays, deliberations and criticisms explaining key periods, figures and issues of our national history and cultural and literary present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is focused on the personal life and outputs of historian and literary critic Vladimír Petrík, who researched primarily on the interwar prose and prose aft er 1945 in Slovakia. In particular, attention is paid to V. Petrík's participation in the processing of biographical and bibliographical entries regarding Slovak writers and fi gures which were featured in several encyclopaedic dictionaries (Encyklopédia Slovenska [Encyclopaedia of Slovakia] I - VI; Encyklopédia slovenských spisovateľov [Encyclopaedia of Slovak Writers] 1 - 2; Slovenský biografi cký slovník [Slovak Biographical Dictionary] I - VI; etc.) as well as in periodicals, including the magazine Knižnica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]