Jana Pácalová
/Slovakia
(Slovakia), born in 1979. She graduated in
Slovak Language and Literature. She received
her PhD at the Institute of Slovak Literature at
the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava,
where she works as a researcher. She focuses
on fairy tales in the period of Romanticism.
In 2003, she published a collection of poetry
Citová výchova (Emotional Education),
which received the Ivan Krasko Debut Prize.