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Peter Pišťanek
Slovak writer · Slovakia · On the map · Writers · Lived 1960 to 2015 · aged 54
Peter Pišťanek was a Slovak writer. He began publishing short stories in the 1980s, and his first novel, Rivers of Babylon, came out in 1991. This was adapted into a film of the same name in 1998 by Vladimir Balco. The book was followed by the sequels Wooden Village (1994) and End of Freddy (1999).
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Two more of Pišťanek's works were adapted to film, both by Juraj Nvota: his short story "Muzika", which won Best Film at the Sun in a Net Awards in 2008, and his novel Rukojemník - Lokomotívy v daždi, in 2014. Pišťanek committed suicide on 22 March 2015.
