Jana Kantorová-Báliková

Jana Kantorová-Báliková
Born 9 June 1951 (1951-06-09) (age 67)
Bratislava
Nationality Slovakia

Jana Kantorová-Báliková or Jana Kantorova-Balikova (born 9 June 1951) is a Slovak poet and translator. She has written her own poetry and won awards for translating the works of other poets. She has also translated prose works by Oscar Wilde, J. K. Rowling and Douglas Adams.

Life

Kantorová-Báliková was born in Bratislava in 1951.[1]

In 1973 she shared the Jan Holly prize for best literary translation.[2] She won the same award in 1981 for her translation of the Ballad of Reading Gaol.[3]

She has published books of poetry in 1976, 1977, 1986 and 1988. These were all published in Bratislava.[4] In addition, her poetry was included in the collection "Shifting Borders: East European Poetries of the Eighties".[1]

She has published "Thirst and Elation" and at the same time translated the work of poets including Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Browning and William Blake.[1]

She has also translated Oscar Wilde, J.K.Rowling and Douglas Adams.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Walter M. Cummins (1993). Shifting Borders: East European Poetries of the Eighties. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. pp. 191–. ISBN 978-0-8386-3497-4.
  2. International Literary Market Place. R. R. Bowker Company. 1985. p. 75.
  3. Interview with poet and translator Jana KANTOROVA-BÁLIKOVÁ, Literary Centre, Retrieved 26 April 2017
  4. Zirin, Mary; Livezeanu, Irina; Worobec, Christine D.; Pachuta Farris, June (26 March 2015). Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: A Comprehensive Bibliography Volume I: Southeastern and East Central Europe (Edited by Irina Livezeanu with June Pachuta Farris) Volume II: Russia, the Non-Russian Peoples of the Russian. Routledge. pp. 850–. ISBN 978-1-317-45197-6.
  5. "Jana Kantorová-Báliková". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
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