Viliam Klimáček

2008 SME Readers’ Choice Award winner

 

(1958) Trenčín

 

After graduating from the Medical Faculty UK he worked as a surgeon and anaesthetist at the Clinic of Cardiovascular Surgery. Since 1985, as a co-founder, actor, director and scriptwriter, he has been one of the leading personalities of the Bratislavan alternative theatre GUnaGU. In the first half of the nineties he left his surgical practice and has been professionally dedicated to theatre ever since.

He has published the novels Panic v podzemí / Virgo in the Underground (1997), Váňa Krutov / Váňa Krutov (1999) a Naďa má čas / Naďa Has Time (2002), Námestie kozmonautov / The Square of the Astronauts (2007), short stories Ďalekohladenie (the word game consisting of the transformed word farsightedness and stroking) (1991), fairy tales Noha k nohe / Foot by Foot (1996), poestry books Až po uši / Entirely (1988), Zdravotní knížka pro vojáky základní služby / The Health Book for the Soldiers of General Service (1991), Karamelky / Toffees (1992) and theatre texts Mária Sabína / Mária Sabína (1998). The book Remix GUnaGU / Remix GUnaGU (2000). Novels Námestie kozmonautov / The Square of the Astronauts (2007) and Horúce leto 68 / Hot Summer 68 (2011).

 

 

 

 

Námestie kozmonautov / The Square of the Astronauts
KK Bagala

(2007)