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Vincent Šikula

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Born: October 18 1936

Died: 1515 06 20012001

and 1961 he worked as an organist in a church in Ivanka na Dunaji and between 1961 and 1964 as a teacher in Modra. At the end of the ´60´s he worked briefly for the monthly Romboid. From 1969 till 1973 he was employed as a screenplay editor. From 1973 till 1992 , he worked as an editor for the publishing house Slovenský spisovateľ. Vincent Šikula lived and died in Bratislava, but his writing is connected with Modra and its surroundings.
His debut was a collection of short stories, Na koncertoch sa netlieska , based on his experiences from the military service. In the same year he published a second collection of short stories Možno si postavím bungalov. These two prosaic texts are connected by the theme of a young man searching for his role in life. His next novel, S Rozárkou , was a „balladic prosaic text“ about a mentally handicapped girl. Stories published in the book Nebýva na každom vŕšku hostinec describe the fates of marginal people who posses great internal strength. A collection of short stories, Povetrie , focuses on the further experiences of characters from his previous prosaic texts. In the ´70´s these texts were followed by a trilogy entitled: Majstri , Muškát and Vilma . It describes the events of WWII and its aftermath as perceived and experienced in Slovak countryside. In 1978 he published a romantic novel Vlha and in 1980 an autobiographic text, Liesky, relating some parts of his life at the end of the ´50´s.
His next novel, Vojak , describes the fate of a war invalid. In 1983 followed the historical novel Matej as well as a collection of essays entitled Nokturná. During the ´80´s and ´90´s he published a series of texts . Out of these the most interesting are: stories from the collection Pôstny menuet and the novel Veterná ružica , portraying the fate of small people with no influence on great history, who often become its victims.
Šikula wrote several books for children and young people – worth mentioning are Prázdniny so strýcom Rafaelom and Ďuro, pozdrav Ďura . Vajíčko sliepky liliputánky , O múdrom kohútikovi , Augustín a zvon and Medardove rozprávky were written for smaller children. Šikula is also author of several collections of poetry, such as Z domu na kopci , Zo zanedbanej záhrady , Bubeník september- and Za odchodom orgovánu , published posthumously.

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Vincent Šikula

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Books from Vincent Šikula

Prázdniny so strýcom Rafaelom

S Rozarkou

Majstri

Vilma

Liesky

Nebýva na každom vŕšku hostinec

Deti

Povetrie

Pán horár má za klobúkom mydleničku

Nestojte na chodníku (Výber súčasnej prózy)

Z poslednej lavice: O škole nevážne, vážne a odvážne

Konfrontácia

Vlha

Pastierska kapsička

Rozárka