Etela Farkašová (née Zipserová; born 5 October 1943)[1] is a Slovak writer and philosopher.

She retired in 2010, but as of 2023 she is still active as an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy as well as a researcher of the Center for Gender Studies at the university.

[6][7] She is a member of the Network of East-West Women (NEWW), the Slovak branch of PEN club, Österreichischer Schriftstellerverband and a co-founder of the Slovak female writer club FEMINA.

[2][8] Etela Farkašová debuted as a fiction writer in 1978 with a collection of short stories Reproduction of time (Reprodukcia času), which won the Ivan Krasko Award.

[1] In 2018 she was awarded the Anasoft Litera prize for her book Script (Scenár), which discusses the possibility of living slowly in fast times.