Marja Holecyová (born Mária Holecyová[1] 28 August 1988) is a Slovak mathematician and fantasy writer.
Mária Holecyová | |
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| Born | 28 August 1988 Nitra, Czechoslovakia |
| Pen name | Marja Holecyová |
| Occupation | Mathematician, fantasy writier |
| Genre | Historical fantasy |
Education edit
Holecyová was born in Nitra. She studied Mathematics at the Comenius University. Her PhD thesis Maximum Principle for Infinite Horizon Discrete Time Optimal Control Problems was supervised by professor Pavel Brunovský and defended in 2016.[2]
Writing edit
Holecyová started writing Harry Potter fan fiction as a 16 years old under the pseudonym Marja Holecyová. Encouraged by the popularity of her writing she send a manuscript of her own fantasy story set in Slovakia and based on local mythology Mariotovi dediči (Heirs of Mariot) to the Slovak branch of Czech fantasy and sci-fi published Fragment at the age of 20.[3] The success of the book resulted in three sequels published over the course of 2010 and 2011.[1] In 2016, she published a historical fantasy novel set in the 16th century Kingdom of Hungary called Korene Hriechu (Roots of sin)[4]
References edit
- ^ a b Černáková, Jana. "Slovenskú fantasy ságu píše študentka matematiky z Nitry". mynitra.sme.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ "Maximum Principle for Infnite Horizon Discrete Time Optimal Control Problems". www.iam.fmph.uniba.sk. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ "Príbeh: Marja mala len šestnásť rokov, keď začala písať". Pravda.sk (in Slovak). 23 March 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ "Marja Holecyová". Literárne informačné centrum (in Slovak). 11 March 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2022.