Oľga Feldeková, a Slovak novelist, journalist, screenwriter and playwright, died at the age of 82 on Saturday. This was confirmed for TASR by her son Martin and Anna Ölvecká, a family friend of the Feldek family.
She considered her husband and children to be her greatest success that she experienced. According to her, everything else that happened was incidental. Humor was her prevailing attitude even in serious moments and situations, while life experiences gave her insight.
As she confessed to TASR years ago, her husband taught her to know her way around literature. “He stocked me with good books. He did not allow me to read stupid books and watch stupid movies or shows, so as not to spoil my taste. My whole family, my father, mother, brother, later husband and children have and had a great sense of humor. Serious things happened in my life, and I was grateful to fate when there was something to laugh about,” she added.
Oľga Feldeková, née Lukáčiová, was born on March 28, 1943 in Martin. She grew up in Tvrdošín on Orava. She graduated from the eleven-year high school in Trstena and after graduation she worked for two years as a worker at Tesla Orava in Nižna. In 1967, she graduated in journalism at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava.
Her parents raised her to be truthful, and her mother used a trick to do this, which he used. “If I accidentally vaporized some contraband, or if I lost something and wanted to hide it, my mother assured me that she would find out anyway, because the guardian angel would whisper it to her. I always confessed to everything, and I didn’t think anything good of the bonzak angel,” she revealed to TASR with her typical humor. She and her husband, poet, playwright and writer Ľubomír Feldek, had five children. They lived together in Prague for a while, currently living in Bratislava.
