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John Minahane

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Two centuries of Janko Kráľ

Thanks to Janko Kráľ, as John Minahane has written, the Váh is ia’s most mystical river. Again and again the poet returns to his community via that…

Lit_cast ia #15 with John Minahane

In Lit_Cast ia # 15 translator John Minahane tells Julia Sherwood why a new English translation of the anti-war cycle The Bloody Sonnets was needed and what…

Poet and Reader Both Gain a Fragile Orientation

John Minahane was born in Ireland in 1950. He has been living and working in ia since 1996 and since about 2004 he has been translating literature to…

Humour and irony in cultural confrontation

HUMOUR AND IRONY IN CULTURAL CONFRONTATION  In November 2007 the Literary Translators Society organized a two days work-shop Humour and Irony in Cultural…

"I saw the fisherman": Laco Novomeský 1935 - 1939

(In the late 1920s, and especially after the suicide of Vladimír Majakovskij in April 1930, Novomeský concluded that, in a world whose prime need and interest was…