Lacková, Elena

Ele­na Lack­ová (1921−2003) – a promi­nent Romani writer, play­wright, and cul­tur­al and social work­er. In 1948, she wrote a play called The Burn­ing Gyp­sy Camp, in which she depict­ed the expe­ri­ence of the Roma dur­ing World War II and with which she toured through­out Czecho­slo­va­kia. She raised five chil­dren and, at the age of 42, enrolled in dis­tance learn­ing at the Fac­ul­ty of Jour­nal­ism and Edu­ca­tion at Charles Uni­ver­si­ty, from which she grad­u­at­ed in 1970 as the first Romani woman from Slo­va­kia. Her best-known auto­bi­og­ra­phy is I Was Born Under a Lucky Star.