Jana Kantorová-Báliková

Since then she has been a freelance translator. She has published five volumes of her own poetry, including the 2005 selection Pondelok v galérii [Monday in a Gallery]. She has translated a lot of poems or part of poems into the prosaic works translated by other translators, and also published her own prosaic translations, but the most important of her works are her translations of poetry. She has translated more than twenty poets from English. The foremost of her translated books are: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1978; Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven and Other Poems, 1979; Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1981; The Lake Poets, a selection of poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, 1989; as well as editions of Selected Poems by William Blake, 1976; Robert Browning, 1977; Brendan Kennelly, 1984 and 2003; Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1995; Robert Burns, 1999; Seamus Heaney, 2000; Douglas Dunn, 2009; Rudyard Kipling, 2011; John Deane, 2012; W.B. Yeats, 2012; Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 2013; Alfred Tennyson, 2014; John Donne, 2017; Louise Glück, 2017; John Clare, 2018 and Jim Harrison, 2020. She has been awarded the Slovak Literary Fund’s Cena Jána Hollého [Ján Hollý Prize] on five occasions, in 1981(Oscar Wilde); 1999 (Robert Burns); 2010 Vladimir Nabokov (Poem in a novel Pale Fire); 2014 Alfred Tennyson and 2017 John Donne.

• Name — Jana Kantorová-Báliková • Born — 9 June 1951 • Birthplace — Bratislava