ELENA HIDVÉGHYOVÁ-YUNG

ELENA HIDVÉGHYOVÁ-YUNG (1970), poet, writer, translator. She graduated from the Comenius University Bratislava in Chinese language and culture, spent a number of years in China (Peking university, East China Normal University Shanghai) and worked few years as the sinologist-scholar at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. She made her literary debut with the collection To Sister of Old (Prasestre, 2006), which is notable for its melancholy, gentle reverie, and leanings towards allegory and symbol, fairytale and Biblical motif. There are many surprising images, ciphers, riddles, and climaxes of the poems (often in the last line). In her second collection Homme fatal (2008) the predominant theme is the intimate partnership of man and woman and desire for harmony, often with the painful awareness that this ideal cannot be permanently attained. Her psychological novel The Plum Blossom Rain (Dážď slivkových kvetov, 2011) is an intimate story of love in China, with main characters Angela and Liang, a young attractive foreigner and a much older, successful Chinese artist.  In 2014 Elena Hidvéghyová-Yung published her third volume of poetry named Materia prima. One of the main focus of the poetess are the issues  concerning the Light and the Darkness, the God  and the Devil, making the whole collection rather philosophical, within the frame of authors Christian sensibility.