[1] She was born on 27 January 1923, in Kráľova Lehota, as Kristína Bendová; she received her first name after her mother.
[2] She attended schools in Kremnica, Nové Zámky and Banská Bystrica, where she passed her final exams in 1942.
Before dedicating herself entirely to writing books, for years she was the editor of the magazines Ohník and Roháč, and later of the newspaper Pravda.
[1] She wrote 54 books,[2] screenplays for TV films and also translated literature from Czech and Russian.
The couple had three sons (Ján, Juraj and Michal), who appear in the book Opice z našej police.