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Dušan Mitana

9. 12. 1946
Moravské Lieskové
—  22. 5. 2019
Genre:
essay, general fiction, literature, poetry, screenwriting

Curriculum vitae

Dušan Mitana studied television and film writing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, but he left the university when his thesis advisor was removed in the wake of the political changes after 1968. Mitana then worked for two of the most prominent literary journals in Slovakia, Mladá tvorba and Romboid, and from 1975 on he was a freelance writer. In 1989 he became one of the founding members of the Slovak chapter of PEN. His works, which include more than a dozen books of prose, two collections of poetry, and several scripts, span a period of more than forty years and have been translated and published in more than twenty countries. A mitanaesque duality of the rational-irrational is usually present in his stories, connecting everyday banal plots with elements of tension, hyperbole, secrecy and dreams. His last book, Nezvestný (Missing, 2019), has been published posthumously.