Margita Figuli (2 October 1909 – 27 March 1995; known after her marriage as Margita Šustrová and by the penname Ol'ga Morena) was a Slovak prose writer, translator and author of literature for children and young people.

After her studies in Banská Bystrica, she moved to Bratislava to work in a bank, while writing; her earliest stories were published in 1937.

[2] She then worked as an English correspondent at Tatrabanka until 1941 when she was fired due to the publication of Olovený vták which publicly [clarification needed] the German invasion of Poland; after this then she focused on writing and translating.

Margita Figuli is a significant representative of the Slovak school of naturalism.

A devout Christian,[2] she wrote the biblical historical novel Babylon which portrayed the fall of the Chaldean empire to the Persians.