Ivan Štrpka

Ivan Štrpka: born in 1944, he grew up in southern Slovakia. In 1963 –1969 he studied Slovak and Spanish at Comenius University in Bratislava. He entered literature as a member of Osamelí be ci (The Lonely Runners). After 1968 they were not allowed to publish their work and he made a living as a dramaturge and writing song lyrics. By the mid–eighties, he became the editor in chief of the magazine Mladé Rozlety and then the editor in chief of the newly established literary weekly, Literárny týd denník. From 1990 to 1993, he was the editor in chief of Kultúrny ivot and in 1999 he became the editor in chief of the literary magazine Romboid until 2010.