Michal Habaj

Michal Habaj (1974) is a Slovak poet and literary historian. He has published poetry collections 80-967760-4-5 (1997), Gymnazistky. Prázdniny trinásťročnej /High School Girls. Holidays of a Thirteen-Year-Old/ (1999), Korene neba. Básne z posledného storočia /Roots of Heaven. Poems from the Last Century/ (2000), Básne pre mŕtve dievčatá /Poems for Dead Girls/ (2003), Michal Habaj (2012), and Caput Mortuum (2015). A reprint of the first four collections was published in a collected edition under the title Spevy kyborgove /Songs of the Cyborg/ (2020). He is the recipient of the international poetry prizes Velikaya premiya Bereznevi koti (Uzhhorod, 2014) and the Václav Burian Prize (Olomouc, 2018). Under the pen name Anna Snegina, he published the poetry collections Pas de deux (2003) and Básne z pozostalosti /Poems from the inheritance/ (2009). He is one of the co-authors of the experimental poetry project Generator X: Hmlovina /Generator X: Nebula/ (1999) and Generator X_2: Nové kódexy /Generator X_2: New Codes/ (2013) and co-author of the poetry book The European Constitution in Verse (2009). His poems have been translated into most European languages and included in many international anthologies. Separate book-length selections of his poetry have been published in Mexico, Nostalgia o Invierno en Bratislava (2018), and in Germany, Erwachen (2021); the collections Caput Mortuum and Michal Habaj have been published in Hungarian translation (2019, 2020).