Jana Kantorová-Báliková

Jana Kantorová-Báliková is a Slovak poet and one of the leading translators of poetry from English. Born in 1951 in Bratislava, she graduated from Komenský University in Bratislava in pedagogical psychology and English. Between 1974 and 1977, she worked as literary editor for various journals and, from 1977 to 1990, as a poetry editor for Slovenský spisovateľ [Slovak Writer] publishers. 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.