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The author's impetus to reflect on Karol Strmeň's diverse literary works stemmed from last year's centenary of Strmeň's birth. Karol Strmeň was an important representative of Catholic modernism in Slovakia, prolific poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. In addition to the cross-section of Strmeň's literary outputs, supplemented with unique reflections on selected poetry collections, the article provides an insight into his life, which was influenced mainly by years of exile in Austria, Germany, Italy, and the USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is focused on the personal life and outputs of historian and literary critic Vladimír Petrík, who researched primarily on the interwar prose and prose aft er 1945 in Slovakia. In particular, attention is paid to V. Petrík's participation in the processing of biographical and bibliographical entries regarding Slovak writers and fi gures which were featured in several encyclopaedic dictionaries (Encyklopédia Slovenska [Encyclopaedia of Slovakia] I - VI; Encyklopédia slovenských spisovateľov [Encyclopaedia of Slovak Writers] 1 - 2; Slovenský biografi cký slovník [Slovak Biographical Dictionary] I - VI; etc.) as well as in periodicals, including the magazine Knižnica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]