Fraňo Kráľ (9 March 1903 – 3 January 1955) was a Slovak poet, novelist and politician who was a leading representative of Socialist realist literature in Czechoslovakia.

After receiving his primary education, Kráľ started to work as a teacher after his graduation from the pedagogical school in Spišská Nová Ves.

[2] During his studies, due to his poor diet, he contracted typhus, which left permanent traces in his body, and later lung disease was a direct consequence of it.

Not yet properly treated, he was released from the sanatorium and began working as a teacher in Okoličné, later he was transferred to the small village of Kováčovce in the district of Modrý Kameň and other places.

His writing style became close to socialist realism, in which there was an anti-religious and later anti-fascist tendency and an exaltation of Marxist ideology.