Ivan Strpka Slovakia

IVAN ŠTRPKA was born in 1941 in Hlohovec. He studied Spanish and Slovak at the Philosophical Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava. While still a student he was on the editorial boards of the literary periodical Mladá tvorba and the magazine Kultúrny život. Later he was an editor in Slovenský spisovate? and Tatran publishing houses. From 1973 to 1986 he worked as a script editor in Czechoslovak Television in Bratislava and later was editor-in-chief of the social magazine Flights of Youth. When Literárny týždenník made its appearance in 1988, he became deputy editor-in-chief. After the revival of Kultúrny život he worked as its editor-in chief until it folded again in 1993, when he became a freelance writer. Since 2000 he has been editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Romboid. He lives in Bratislava.

His published poetry collections are: The Brief Childhood of Lancers (1969), Tristan the Gossip (1971), Now and Other Islands (1981), Prior to Metamorphosis (1982), News from an Apple (1985), Everything is in the Shell (1989), Beautiful Nude World (1990), Location, South-west. A Mother’s Death (1995), Interludes. Dolls Shorter by a Head (1997), Master Mu and the Women’s Voices (1997), Baby; A Crisis, Voices and Other Poems (both 2001), 25 Poems (2003), Silent Hand. Ten Elegies (2006), Psychopolis, Thin Ice (2007).

He has also published a selection of song lyrics, two essay collections and a novel.

(2010)