[1] During World War II, Katarína Lazarová worked as a civil servant in Bratislava and took part in the local resistance.
[1] After the war, Lazarová became an established novelist, writing often about the Slovak National Uprising or social matters.
[1] Apart from writing her own work, Lazarová also contributed as a literary translator from German and Spanish into Slovak.
[1] Initially, Lazarová was in good standing with the ruling Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) and was registered at ŠtB.
[4] After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, she took part in a debate in Vienna on future political developments in her country, led by Emil Vidra, a former chairman of a human rights protection organisation.