Code: Pavel Villikovsky
Category: Authors

Novel: Fleeting Snow

PAVEL VILLIKOVSKY was born 27 June 1941 in Palúdzka. He studied to be a film director at FAMU in Prague, changing courses after two years to study English and Slovak and graduating from Comenius University, Bratislava in 1965. He worked as an editor at the publishing house Tatran, and from 1976 to 1995 as a deputy chief editor of the literary monthly Romboid. He has also worked in the Slovak editorial department of Readers’ Digest. Hailed as one of the most important Eastern European writers of the post-Communist era, Pavel Vilikovsky actually began his career in 1965, but the political content of his writing and its straightforward treatment of such taboo topics as bisexuality kept him from publishing the works collected here until after the Velvet Revolution. In 1997 Vilikovský won the Vilenica Award for Central European literature.