{"id":12,"date":"2014-12-08T15:07:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T14:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronislavavolkova.com\/eng\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2022-03-30T13:50:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T12:50:17","slug":"literary-and-translation-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bronislavavolkova.com\/eng\/literary-and-translation-work\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 is an exile poet, who left Czechoslovakia in 1974 and lived over 40 years in the USA, where she became a Full Professor in the Slavic Department of Indiana University, Bloomington. She started publishing poetry ten years later at PmD (Poetry Abroad) in Munich, West Germany and in a number of journals in various languages all over the world. A selection from these poems appeared in Votobia, Olomouc, Czech Republic in 1995 under the title <em>Rozt\u0159\u00ed\u0161t\u011bn\u00e9 sv\u011bty <\/em>(Shattered Worlds). In English, her selected poems appeared in <em>Sheep Meadow Press<\/em>, New York 1993 under the title <em>Courage of the Rainbow<\/em>. Her poetry is reflective, existential and growing its metaphysical dimension.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Since 1999, the author wrote and published bilingually, e.g. <em>Prom\u011bny\/Transformations<\/em> (2000, 2001), <em>Vstup do sv\u011btla\/Entering Light<\/em> (2002) and twin editions <em>Ze tmy zrozen\u00e1\/Born out of Darkness<\/em> (2004\/2005), <em>A p\u00edt budem ze studn\u00ed lahodn\u00fdch\u2026\/ And Drink We Will from Delectable Wells<\/em>\u2026 (2010\/2011). They appeared in handmade bibliophile form illustrated by her own collages in Explorer Editions, Bloomington \u2013 Praha.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vstup do sv\u011btla\/Entering Light<\/em> a <em>Ze tmy zrozen\u00e1\/ Born out of Darkness<\/em> were performed in a theater setting and filmed in Bloomington as multimedia shows with the projection of collages, improvisational dance and music. A selection of her poetry appeared in a parallel Czech and English CD under the title <em>Nejmen\u0161\u00ed p\u0159ipom\u00ednka Tv\u00e9ho byt\u00ed<\/em>\u2026 <em>(T\u0159icet let exilu: 1974-2004)\/The Slightest Reminder of Your Being\u2026 (Thirty Years of Exile: 1974-2004),<\/em> 2005 and collected poems with collages came out under the title <em>Vzpom\u00ednky mo\u0159e<\/em> (The Sea Recalls) at Pavel Mervart 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In latest years, she continues publishing her poetry bilingually. Currently her work exists in twelve languages. She does many international readings of poetry and participates in many international poetry festivals as a guest of honor and a medallist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; She has also translated many Czech poets into English and Slavic poets into Czech. Her bilingual anthology of 20<sup>th<\/sup> century Czech poetry appeared under the title P<em>o h\u0159bet\u011b \u010f\u00e1bla\/Up the Devil\u2019s Back <\/em>in Slavica Publishers v Bloomington 2008. Apart from poetry, she publishes stories and essays on the topic of exile, which are also translated into various languages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Her poetry was reviewed among others by Bohumil Hrabal, Ji\u0159\u00ed Holub, Arno\u0161t Lustig, W.S. Merwin, Willis Barnstone, Petr Kr\u00e1l, Vladim\u00edr Novotn\u00fd, Igor Hochel, Mojm\u00edr Tr\u00e1vn\u00ed\u010dek, Maria Banerjee N\u011bmcov\u00e1, Atanas Zvezdinov, Oleg Solovej, Aleksandr Ratkevi\u010d, Viktor Mel\u2019nyk, Igor Ol\u2019\u0161evskij, Stanislav Ajdinjan, Aleksandr Karpenko, Kristina Kallert. The author is a member of Czech and American PEN club and a recipient of a number of international literary awards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bronislavavolkova.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/kip.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-223 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/bronislavavolkova.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/kip.png\" alt=\"kip\" width=\"345\" height=\"248\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bronislavavolkova.com\/eng\/detailed-cv\/\">See detailed CV and a list of publications<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indiana.academia.edu\/BronislavaVolkova\">See the profile on the website of Indiana University<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 is an exile poet, who left Czechoslovakia in 1974 and lived over 40 years in the USA, where she became a Full Professor in the Slavic Department of Indiana University, Bloomington. 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