Peter Repka Slovakia

PETER REPKA was born in 1944 in Bratislava, where he studied at the Engineering Faculty of the Slovak Technical University. For three years he worked as an editor of the literary magazine Mladá tvorba, until its publication was halted by the authorities. In the early 1970s he left socialist Czechoslovakia, emigrating to the Federal Republic of Germany, where he joined his wife. There he began a career in business which he still pursues. He lives in Offenbach.

His published collections of poetry are: Hen in the Cathedral (1969), Rail-way (1992), Darling Desert (1996), Carnival in the Monastery (2002), Relics of Angels (2006).

His book of literary journalism Arise and Walk was printed in 1970, but censorship prevented its distribution and the entire edition was pulped. Its second edition appeared only in 1998.

(2010)