Ján Zambor

Ján Zambor (1947), Slovak poet, essayist, translator and literary scholar. He worked as a literary editor for Slovak Radio, and from 1988 to 1990 he was the editor-in-chief of Dotyky, a literary magazine for the young. Since 1990 he’s been lecturing at the Comenius University in Bratislava. Collections of poems: Green Evening (1977), Unpostponable (1980), Horse in a Housing Estate (1983), Full Days (1988), Beneath a Poisonous Tree (1995), Raindrop soprano (2000), and Beauty of the Medley (2007); selections: Melancholic Stallion (2003), Migratory Heart (2007). Selected poems have been published as books in Bulgaria, Germany, Belarus; a bibliophile edition in Greece. Zambor has authored multiple books of literary science about poetry (in particular Slovak) and literary translations. He has translated the works of prominent Russian and Spanish poets.