PoetFrance Prešeren; and writer Ivan Cankar are two of the most famous Slovene authors.
In 1825, FrancSerafinMetelko proposed his version of the to-be alphabet called "metelčica".
However, it was banned in 1833 in favour of the bohoričica after the so-called Suit of the Letters (Črkarska pravda) (1830–1833), which was won by France Prešeren; and Matija Čop;.