Background
She was born in Sremska Mitrovica, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (today Vojvodina, Serbia) in 1900, in the family of Šokci Croats.
She was born in Sremska Mitrovica, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (today Vojvodina, Serbia) in 1900, in the family of Šokci Croats.
Mara Švel-Gamiršek attended the elementary school in Sremska Mitrovica.
Beside prose, she also wrote poetry. She continued her education in gymnasium in Sušak, and after that, she went to study medicine. From 1923 she turned to her literary work.
Later, she moved to Zagreb.
Being Šokica herself, she has described the life of Šokci Croats in her books In wider sense, she belonged to the phenomenon of žensko šokačko pismo ("female literature of Šokci").
She was the working with magazine Hrvatska revija, publishing some of her poetry in it in 1976.