Mila Haugová

Ivana Hostová (Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Ed. by Charles Sabatos, Yeditepe University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.8.1: Czech and Slovak Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Charles Sabatos (Yeditepe University)

Dates

Born 1942

Places

Born in Slovakia
Active in Slovakia

Activities

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Poet

Resources

With only a few female predecessors in 20^th-century Slovak literature, Mila Haugová (b. 1942) is one of the first women poets universally accepted across the Slovak literary field. With two selections of her poetry, Scent of the Unseen (2003) and Eternal Traffic (2020), released in English translation by the established UK-based Arc Publications, she is also the most successful Slovak poet in terms of international publication. As of present, she has authored more than thirty books of poetry and memoirs and translated numerous selections from the poetry of (mainly) Anglophone and German-speaking authors, including Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Ingeborg Bachmann. She received the Vilenica …

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Citation: Hostová, Ivana. "Mila Haugová". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 November 2021 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14791, accessed 03 May 2024.]

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