Ján Brezina

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

He was an employee of the Slovak Academy of Sciences starting in 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")[1]
  • Horúcou linkou (By a hotline")

Literary history:

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

References

  1. ^ "Nočné bdenie - Ján Brezina". catalog.hathitrust.org. Retrieved 25 June 2025.