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Gustáv Murín

Born April 9th 1959 in Bratislava, Slovakia

Address: G. Murín, Hagaru 17, 831 51 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Phone: ++421-2-4488 4237 (home), Phone/Fax: -5441 5603 (University)
E-mail: murin@m2.fedu.uniba.sk or murinsk@yahoo.com

Published books:
The Case of a Buried Cemetery (novella; samizdat, 1986; Mladá Fronta/Prague, 1989, in Czech)
Summer Favors Lovers (collection of stories; Corinex, 1990)
Comebacks from Light (collection of sci-fi stories; Slovenský spisovatel, 1990)
Substitutional End of the World (collect. of three essays about future of human civilization Lita, 1992; Ivo Železný Publ./Prague, 1999, in Czech)
Instinct contra culture (extensive study of history of human sexuality; Print-Servis, 1994; Hynek Publ./Prague, 1999, in Czech as Sex contra culture)
Orgasmodromes (collect. of essays and articles about modern human sexuality; Meritum, 1997)
How are you (novel; Illusion, 1998)
Animals, me and other (prose) (collection of stories; Slovenský spisovatel, 1998)
Just Like the Gods (study about advances in biology and it impact for everyday life, Slovart, 2001)
And you will become Gods (collection of three essays, Ivo Železný Publ./Prague, 2002, in Czech)

Copies of some of these books available abroad: Czech Republic (42 libraries), Canada (1lib.), United Kingdom (3 lib.), U.S.A. (13 lib.), Uzbekistan (1lib.).

Other publications:
Proppe and others, collection of fiction in electronic form, Net-Book-Club, Denmark, 1997 (in English).
Co-author of 10 different collections of stories and/or essays in Slovakia and 6 abroad (Czech Republic, Ukraine, Romania, USA).
Author of 11 radio-dramas, TV documents, TV movie and art movie.
Author of more than 990 articles in 39 major Slovak, Czech and international newspapers and magazines.

Translations in Czech (7x), Bulgarian (2x), Croatian (4x), English (7x), French (1x), India/hindi (2x), Polish (2x), Portuguese (1x), Romanian (5x), Ukrainian (1x), Swedish (3x)...

Readings abroad: Czech Republic (1994, 1996, 1997, 1999x2, 2001, 2002x5, 2003x2), Croatia (1995, 1996), Georgia (1996), India (2000), Poland (2003), Romania (1995), Switzerland (2002), USA (1995x2, 1998x2, 2002x2)…
+ more than 37 literary presentations in 20 cities of Slovakia

International fellowships:
International Writing Program at University of Iowa, Iowa City, U.S.A. (Aug. – Nov. 1995)
"Creative Reporting Workshop - Facing the Challenge of the 21st Century" conducted by Ryszard Kapuscinski (Warszawa, Poland, Nov. 1997 – June 1998)
International Writers´ Residence in Ledig House, New York State, USA (Sept.- Aug. 1998)
Independent Project of ArtsLink, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA (Feb. – June 2001)
International Writers´ Residence in Château de Lavigny (July - Aug. 2002)

Membership:
• Slovak Center of the PEN International (Member since 1993, Secretary 1995-97, President since 2000-)
• Slovak Center of Roma Club (Member since 1994)
• Slovak Syndicate of Journalists (Member since 1995)
• World Innovation Foundation (2002)

Further details in:
Who’s who in the world (Marquis’, USA, since 1997)
Dictionary of international biography (Cambridge, Great Britain, 1998, 1999)
People of the 20th Century (Cambridge, Great Britain, 1998, 1999)
International Who’s Who of Contemporary Achievement (American Biographical Institute, 1998, 2001)
+ in three other international and ten national publications and web-databases

+ other web-sites: www.scpen.sk; artistswithoutfrontiers.com; litcentrum.sk; amazon.com



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