Martin Solotruk

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MARTIN SOLOTRUK is a poet, cultural manager, translator, and academic researcher, born (1970) in Bratislava, Slovakia. Solotruk's first book of poetry Tiché vojny (Silent Wars, 1997) won the Slovak Literary Fund Best Debut Award. His later books of poetry include Mletie (Grinding, 2001), Planktón gravitácie (Plankton of Gravity, 2006), Lovestory: Agens And Paciens, (2007), and The Metaphysical Household (2017). His upcoming book of poetry, Atoms Beyond the Window, is due in 2025.  A solo book of Solotruk’s poetry was launched in March 2016, in Éditions Bruno Doucey, as part of his readings at Le Printemps des poètes festival, in Maison de la Poesie, in Paris. Solotruk gave invited readings and performances at numerous major festivals and events, worldwide, in over 20 countries, including Hong Kong Poetry Nights, Toronto International Festival of Authors, Poesie Festival Berlin, Genoa International Poetry Festival, Struga Poetry Nights, Taipei International Festival, Europe House in London, StAnza Festival in St. Andrews, UK, Vilenica Festival, Slovenia, and other major global poetry events. Solotruk has directed Ars Poetica, a renowned international poetry festival and publishing house (www.arspoetica.sk), an organization based in Bratislava, Slovakia, since 2003. For his translation of Ted Hughes' The Crow he won the 2007 prize for the best artistic translation in Slovakia.

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