Daniel Hevier Slovakia

DANIEL HEVIER was born in 1955 in Bratislava and studied aesthetics and the Slovak language at the Philosophical Faculty of Bratislava’s Comenius University. While still a student he began working as a literary editor in Czechoslovak Radio, after which he devoted himself to writing. From 1988 he worked as an editor in the Mladé letá publishing house and in 1990 he became its editor-inchief. In 1992 he established his own publishing house HEVI in Bratislava, where he works full-time as well as continuing to write.

His published poetry collections are: Butterfly Merrygo-round (1974), With Dad in the Garden (1976), The Bird Drinks from the Wheelrut (1977), Nonstop (1981), Electronic Clown (1983), Movable Shore (1984), Man Seeks Sea (1984), In Every Door (1988), Lousy Thirty (1990), Poems from an Advertising Campaign for the End of the World (1996), White Burns Best (2003).

He has also published a book of song lyrics, Rustyhead (1997), the prose work Do You Want to be Happy? Ask Me How...... (1997), and a collection of essays, Making Sense in One Language (1988).

He has written a large number of children’s books.

(2010)