Peter Michalík

Peter Michalík is a radio journalist, publisher and founder and programme director of BRaK – Bratislava Book Festival. He studied philosophy and literature at the Comenius University in Bratislava, continuing with graduate studies on cities and urban memory, with study visits to universities in Krakow, Prague, Vienna and Lviv. Since September 2017 he has been working at the Information Centre for Literature, the Slovak state agency for promoting Slovak literature abroad, where he deals with translations and international projects and cooperation as a manager for foreign rights. In 2018 he established a publishing imprint Monokel, focused on visual and illustrated books from around the world.