The page of Ondruš, Ján
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Biography
poet and translator Born 11 March 1932 in Nová Vieska. He started to publish poetry in periodicals as an eleven-year old boy. After graduating from the secondary school (1948–1951) in Nitra, he studied at the Institute of Political Sciences and Economy in Prague, but had to leave because of illness (tuberculosis). He worked subsequently in several places as a librarian. His 1958 debut collection Ego was rejected by the socialist-realist editors. In a bad atmosphere that surrounded his person, his health suffered a relapse and from 1961 he has been living on the disability pension. He lived in a nursing-home in Stupava. Ondruš died 7 November 2000.
