1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

 

Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Human Rights and National Minorities

 

 

Date of birth: 11. 2. 1939

 

Place of birth: Plzeň

 

Permanent address: Bratislava

 

Marital status: married, 4 children

 

 

 

1952-1956

Secondary school

  

1956-1961

Graduated in Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava

 

PhDr. (1968), DrSc. (1992), Doc. (1992)

 

 

from 1961

researcher of the Literary Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

 

1982-1989

secretary of the Association of Czechoslovak Writers

 

1988-1989

Editor in chief of the literary journal Slovenské pohľady

 

1989-1990

director of the Institute of Literary Science of the Slovak Academy of Sciences 

 

1990-1992

Czech and Slovak Federal Republic´s ambassador to Hungary

 

1993-1997

Head of the department of the Hungarian Language and Literature at Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava

 

1993-1998

Spokesperson of the Forum of Slovak Intellectuals, Editor in chief of Stredoeurópske noviny, supplement of daily newspapers SME, Gazeta Wyborcza, Lidové noviny, Magyar Hírlap, resp. Népszava

 

1993-2000 prezident

president of the Open Society Foundation

1994-2002

director of Institute of Slavic and East European Studies, Charles University of Prague

 

from 1997

Head of Editor´s Council of OS journal (from 2007 editor in chief)

 

2002-2005

Minister of Culture

 

2005-2006

Minister of Culture

 

2005-2006

Member of the Slovak Parliament

 

from 2006

director of Institute of Slavic and East European Studies, Charles University of Prague

  

from 2009

deputy chairman of Most-Híd party

 

from 2010

Deputy Prime Minister for Human Rights and National Minorities

 

 

 

Literatúry v kontaktoch /1972/

Kritika a kontinuita /1975/

Dejiny v dejinách /1981/

Sondy /1983/

Paralely a konfrontácie /1986/

Dejiny slovenskej literárnej kritiky /1991/

Moja maďarská otázka /1996/

Moje slovenské pochybnosti /2004/

Romantizmus v globalizme /2009/

Slovenský komplex /2010/

 

Editing works of Ľ. Štúr, J. M. Hurban, M. Dohnány, M. Pišút, A. Matuška, also anthologys „Literárne vzťahy slovensko-maďarské“, „Slovenská otázka v 20. storočí“, published more than two hundred studies in Slovakia and abroad.

 

 

Laureate of Hungarian state award „Minority prize“ (1996), Ľudovít Štúr “Golden Medal“ award of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (1999), prize of the foreign ministers of Slovakia and Hungary for „Understanding and good neighbourliness“ (2009).