Meeting the word – Book presentation “Just to Live Here”
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The presentation of the book, which the poet and translator Marián Šidlík had published under the title “Just to Live Here” by the Pectus publishing house, took place in the Quo Vadis house in the centre of Bratislava. This is his fifth collection of verses. The radio announcer with many years of experience took a timeless attitude to the whole event; he perceived it as a special meeting with the word. The event was presented by a young musician and singer Kristína Prekopová who devotes herself to TV presentations, dubbing, audiobook recordings and occasionally to dramatic art. She writes and sings her own songs, especially chanson and jazz. She played and sang her three songs on a piano from her most recent album “The Dawn”. The interview with the author of the collection took place in an intimate atmosphere. The audience had a chance to learn something about his birthplace, old-time Trnava and about what moulded the author artistically and when he started out...