Miroslav Válek foto 1

Miroslav Válek

17. 7. 1927
Trnava
—  27. 1. 1991
Bratislava
Genre:
essay, ya and children's books, literary science, poetry

Complete list of works

poetry:
Touches (Dotyky, 1959), Attraction (Príťažlivosť, 1961), Unrest (Nepokoj, 1963), Love-Making with the Goose-Flesh (Milovanie v husej koži, 1965), Word (Slovo, 1976), From Water (Z vody, 1977), Poems, Collected works (Básne, súborné vydanie, 1983), Poems, Collected works (Básnické dielo, súborné vydanie, 2005). The collection of poems, Nenogista roze, published in 2011 in Latvien contains also selecred poems by him. 

poetry for children:
Charms Under the Table (Kúzla pod stolom, 1959), Let's Look at Nature, Who Benefits and Who Causes Harm (Pozrime sa do prírody, kto osoží a kto škodí, 1960), Where the Birds Live (Kde žijú vtáčky, 1961), Great Travel Fever for Young Travellers (Veľká cestovná horúčka pre malých cestovateľov, 1964), To Tramtaria (Do Tramtárie, 1970), A Swallow in Tails (Lastovička vo fraku, 2006) 

essays:
On Literature and Culture (O literatúre a kultúre, 1979)
Inspirations (Inšpirácie, 1999)

translations by the author:
Válek translated mostly poetry from French, German, American (mostly in co-operation with the linguists), as well as from Polish, Czech, and Russian: P. Verlaine, R. M. Rilke, G. Corso, J. Tuwim, V. Nezval, A. Voznesensky, G. Ajgi. These and more translations from Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and French were published in the book Translations (Preklady, 1977)

works translated:
Selected Poems (1969 German, 1978 Belorussian, 1978 Romanian, Moldavian, 1979 Russian, 1981 Polish, 1982 Bulgarian, 1983 Macedonian, 1985 Spanish)
Word (1977 Russian, 1978 Georgian, 1983 Kasakhian)
Touches (1980 Moldavian)
Forbidden Love (1983 Georgian)
The Ground Beneath Our Feet (1996 English)

Selected Poems ,,Nenogista roze" (2011, Latvian)
Selections of Válek's poetry appeared also in Czech, Hungarian, Italian, and Ukrainian. A selection of literary journalism was published in Czech. His books for children appeared in English, Armenian, Bulgarian, Dutch, Finnish, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.