Background
Kveder was born in Ljubljana and spent most of her childhood in rural Lower Carniola before she was sent to a convent school in Ljubljana.
Kveder was born in Ljubljana and spent most of her childhood in rural Lower Carniola before she was sent to a convent school in Ljubljana.
She is considered one of the first Slovene women writers and feminists In 1897 she found work in Ljubljana. In 1899 she first moved to Trieste and then to Bern where she enrolled in the university, but was unable to support herself financially and headed for Munich and then Prague. She later remarried to the Croatian politician Juraj Demetrović.
In Prague she published her first book of short stories Misterij žene (The Mystery of a Woman).
In Slovene literature her encouragement of young writers at the time such as Prežihov Voranc and France Bevk in her role as the editor of the Prague published journal Domači prijatelj is also acknowledged. She also translated some of Janko Kersnik and Ivan Cankar"s work into German as well as Czechoslovakian and Croatian plays into Slovene.