Valerij Kupka

Valerij Kupka (1962) was born in Zeleny Haj, Ukraine. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts, University of P. J. Safarik, Presov. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Russian Studies and Translation at the Faculty of Arts, University of Presov, where he lectures in the history of Russian literature. He is the author of five books of poetry: Nestalost (Instability), 1994; Skomorosina (1996; in Russian), Mucha v uche (1997; in Russian), Liza tichsia ako klastor (Lisa Quieter than Cloister, 2000|) and Dom bez svitla (2004; in Ruthenian). He is a translator from Russian and Ukrainian.