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A Big Clear Out
Towels are the things
which will survive us.
Shirts will remind us.
Suits and coats
will remain after us.
So many things,
to which will be added
just the dust
into which we change.
Pavol Janik: Mgr. art. Pavol Janik, PhD., was born in 1956 in Bratislava, where he also studied film and
television dramaturgy and scriptwriting at the Drama Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (VSMU). He has worked
at the Ministry of Culture (1983-87), in the media and in advertising. President of the Slovak Writers' Society (2003-07),
Secretary-General of the SWS (1998-2003, 2007 - ) and Editor-in-chief of the literary weekly of the SWS Literarny tyzdennik
(2010 - ). He has received a number of awards for his literary and advertising work both in his own country and abroad.
This virtuoso of Slovak literature, Pavol Janik, poet, dramatist, prose writer, translator, publicist and copywriter
was born on 15. 10. 1956. His literary activities focus mainly on poetry. Even his first book of poems, which appeared
a quarter of a century ago, attracted the attention of the leading authorities in Slovak literary circles. He presented
himself as a plain-spoken poet with a spontaneous manner of poetic expression and an inclination for irony directed
not only at others, but also at himself. This style has become typical of all his work, which in spite of its
critical character has also acquired a humorous, even bizarre dimension. His manner of expression is becoming
terse to the point of being aphoristic. It is thus perfectly natural that Pavol Janik's literary interests
should come to embrace aphorisms founded on a shift of meaning in the form of puns. In his work he is gradually
raising some very disturbing questions and pointing to serious problems concerning the further development of
humankind, while all the time widening his range of themes and styles. Literary experts liken Janik's poetic
virtuosity to that in the work of Miroslav Valek, while in the opinion of the Russian poet, translator and l
iterary critic, Natalia Shvedova, Valek is more profound and Janík more inventive. He has translated in poetic
form several collections of poetry and written works of drama with elements of the style of the Theatre of the Absurd.
Pavol Janik's literary works have been published not only in Slovakia, but also in Albania, Belarus,
Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Macedonia, Romania, the Russian Federation,
Serbia, South Korea, Ukraine, United Kingdom and the United States of America.
James Sutherland-Smith (translator)
Web Site
Email: Pavol Janik
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