Ján Brezina

Ján Brezina (1 January 1917 in Východná – 4 August 1997 in Bratislava) was a Slovak poet, literary historian and theoretician.

For the Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament, see Jan Březina.

He was an employee of the Slovak Academy of Sciences since 1943, of the Slovak Matica and from 1970 - 1973 director of the Institute for Literal History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

Works

Poems:

• Nikdy sa nestretnem (I will never meet)
• Okrídlený deň (A day with wings)
• Nočné bdenie (Night waking)
• Horúcou linkou (By a hotline)

Literary history:

• Slovenská poézia v revolučných rokoch 1917-1922 (Slovak poetry in the revolutionary years 1917-1922)

References