Maša Haľamová

Maša Haľamová (August 28, 1908 – July 17, 1995) was a Slovak modernist poet. One of Slovakia's best-known 20th-century poets, she is considered particularly representative of the interwar period in Slovak literature.

Biography Maša Haľamová was born Mária Pullmanová 1908 in Blatnica, Slovakia. Her father, a saffron merchant, was often away traveling abroad for work. After her mother's early death, she was taken in by one of her teachers who had been friends with her mother.

Her husband's untimely death came in 1956, after which she left the mountains and moved back to Martin.

In 1983, Haľamová was given the title of . She died in 1995 in Bratislava.

Writing alt=A book-shaped monument to the poet Maša Haľamová in Štrbské Pleso. Haľamová is considered one of Slovakia's best-known 20th-century poets, described by some critics as the country's best female poet of the first half of the 20th century.

She started out publishing poetry in various Slovak magazines, including Slovenských pohľadoch, Živene, and Eláne. This book, and her subsequent collection Červený mak, are considered seminal works of the interwar period in Slovakia. Her poems most often deal with love, disappointment, and passion. Her later poetry is also profoundly marked by the premature death of her husband, particularly the 1966 collection Smrť tvoju žijem. Some of her best-known love poems are "Red Poppy," "Ballad," "The Enchanted Mountain," and "Of May."

Selected works

Poetry Dar (1928) Červený mak (1932) Básne (1955) Smrť tvoju žijem (1966) Čriepky (1993)

Children's literature Mechúrik Koščúrik s kamarátmi (1962) Petrišorka (1965) O sýkorke z kokosového domčeka (1976)

Essays Vzácnejšie než zlato (1988) Vyznania (1988) Tatranské listy (posthumous, 2001)