Pavol Rankov
2009 Finalist and SME Readers’ Award winner
(1964) Poprad
Studied at the Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University in Bratislava and worked at the Department of Bibliography and Scientific Information. He debuted with the book of short stories S odstupom času/ After Time, he also published the collections My a oni/Oni a my / Us and Them/Them and Us (2001) and V tesnej blízkosti / In Close Proximity(2004). In 2008 he published the novel Stalo sa prvého septembra (alebo inokedy)/ It Happened On the First of September (or Another Time) which won the SME Readers’Award.
In 1995 he became the laureate of the Ivan Krasko Prize, and in 1997 he won the international award Premio Letterario Internazionale Jean Monnet. He won the Prize of the SME Daily in the competition Poviedka 2001. He also dedicates himself to writing non-fiction.
Stalo sa prvého septembra /
It Happened on the First of September
(2008)
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