Ivan Štrpka foto 3

Ivan Štrpka

30. 6. 1944
Hlohovec
Genre:
essay, literary science, other, poetry, general fiction

Complete list of works

poetry:
The Short Childhood of Lancers (Krátke detstvo kopijníkov, 1969), Tristan Talks Trash (Tristan tára, 1971), Now and Other Islands (Teraz a iné ostrovy, 1981), Before the Metamorphosis (Pred premenou, 1982), News from the Apple (Správy z jablka, 1985), Everything Is in a Shell (Všetko je v škrupine, 1989), Beautiful Naked World (Krásny nahý svet, 1990), The Blue Hill (Modrý vrch, 1988, lyrics to music by Dežo Ursíny), Rovinsko, Southwest. Mother`s Death (Rovinsko, juhozápad. Smrť matky, 1995), Intermezzos. Beheaded Puppets (Medzihry. Bábky o hlavu kratšie, 1997), Bebé: One Crisis, Voices and Other Poems (Bebé: jedna kríza, Hlasy a iné básne) (both 2001), Twenty-five Poems (25 básní, 2003), Silent Hand (Tichá ruka, 2006), Poems (Básne I, 2008), Great Breath: Psychopolis, Thin Ice (Veľký dych: Psychopolis, tenký ľad, 2010), Bebé: One Crisis (Bebé: jedna kríza, 2011) 

prose:
The Hostage (Rukojemník, 1999)

essays:
Spasm of the Open Palm and Other Essays (Kŕč roztvorenej dlane a iné eseje, 1995)

TRANSLATIONS BY THE AUTHOR
Štrpka has translated works of world known authors such as M. de Cervantes, J. L. Borges and F. Pessoa as well as an anthology of contemporary Portuguese poetry Honey and Poison (1999)

WORKS TRANSLATED
Štrpka`s poems have been translated into several languages and published abroad in numerous literary magazines and anthologies.
Intermezzos. Beheaded Puppets (1998 German)
Rovinsko, Southwest (1999 Portuguese, 2001, 2003 Romanian, Bulgarian)

Messages from the Apple (Správy z jablka, 2008 Serbian)

Selected poems (literary journal Tratti, 2011, Italian)