Martin SOLOTRUK (Slovakia), born in Bratislava, obtained his Ph.D. in American poetry from Comenius University, Bratislava, where he currently teaches. Solotruk’s first book of poetry Silent Wars (1997) won the Slovak Literary Fund Best Debut Award. It was followed by Grinding (2001), Plankton of Gravity (2006) and Lovestory: Agent and Patient (2007). Solotruk has also translated the works of Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Charles Simic, John Ashbery, Ted Hughes and David Antin. He is also a Director of Ars Poetica International, a poetry festival and publishing house.
馬丁．索羅楚克（斯洛伐克），生於布拉第斯拉瓦，在斯洛伐克柯美紐斯大學研究美國詩歌而取得博士學位，目前在此任教。首部詩集《沉默的戰爭》（1997）獲得斯洛伐克文化基金首發獎，隨後著有《磨》（2001）、《萬有引力的浮游生物》（2006）及《愛情故事：代理人與病人》（2007）。索羅楚克譯作等身，翻譯了泰德．休斯、謝默斯．希尼、查爾斯．西米奇、約翰．阿什貝利與大衛．安提的作品。索羅楚克現為Ars Poetica International詩歌節和出版社的總監。