Rudolf Jurolek studied at the Technical University in Košice and in Bratislava. He has worked as a teacher, a journalist, and an editor. He started The Small Publishing House of Poetry which was later renamed Solitudo. Some of his best-known poetry collections are Život je možný (Life is Possible, 2006), Smrekový les (A Spruce Forest, 2009), and Poľné vety (Sentences Afield, 2013). He has written a series of lyrical reflections for the multi-author book Krajina vo mne (The Country Inside Me, 2015). His collection of poetry Life is Possible, published in a bilingual Slovak/German edition, won the Bank of Austria prize in 2008. In 2017 Jurolek published Pán O (Mr. O) a piece which is, not surprisingly, more poetry than prose. He lives and works in Orava, Slovakia and in Austria.
