Ivan Štrpka nominated for the European Poet of Freedom Literary Award

For his collection of poems Tichá ruka. Desať elégií (Silent Hand. Ten Elegies), published in 2006 by the publishing house Ars Poetica, was Ivan Štrpka - a prominent Slovak poet - nominated for the European Poet of Freedom Literary Award, awarded by the city of Gdansk in Poland. The poems were translated into Polish (Cicha Ręka. Dziesięć elegii) by Zbigniew Machej. For more information click here.