Ján Buzássy Slovakia

JÁN BUZÁSSY was born in 1935 in the village of Kocovce. He studied Librarianship and Slovak at the Philosophical Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava, then went on to become editor, later editor-in-chief, of the important literary journal Mladá tvorba (Young Writing) until it was banned in 1970. He worked for many years as an editor in the Slovenský spisovate? publishing house and in 1994-5 became editor-in-chief of the magazine Kultúrny život. He is now retired and lives in Bratislava.

His published poetry collections are: Game with Knives (1965), The Cynic School (1966), Nausicaa (1970), Beauty Leads the Stone (1972), Fairytale (1975), A Year, Phonolite (both 1976), Spirit of the Elderberry (1978), St. John’s Wort (1979), Plain, Mountains (1982), The Golden Section (1988), Remedy with Wine (1993), Days (1995), Light of the Waters (1997), An Autumn Stroll (1999), Mrs Faust and Other Poems (2001), Still Life – a Brief Lent (2004), Doublewinged Doors (2006), Vixen (2008).

A selection of his poetry, Melancholy Hunter, appeared in English from Modry Peter Ltd, Ontario, Canada in 2002.

He is a notable translator from English, bringing the poetry of Byron, Eliot, Pound, Ginsberg and others to the Slovak reader.

(2010)