Alena Brindová

Alena Brindová (b. 1992) is a Slovak poet, literary scholar and visual artist. She studied media studies and literary studies at the Faculty of Arts of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, with study stays in Prague and Saint Petersburg. She made her debut with the poetry collection Horolezci (FACE, 2022). Her second book, Prekročenie frontovej línie (FACE, 2024), which brings the theme of female identity into contact with psychology, communication theory, digital reality and the history of military conflict, won the Zlatá vlna 2025 award for the best original Slovak poetry collection. Her poems have been translated into Italian, German and French. She spent six years writing scripts for Slovak radio and television, and also works as a literary and film critic, essayist, presenter and interpreter. She is currently working on a third manuscript, in which she further explores the possibilities of women's writing. Updated: 2026 | Source: zlatavlna.sk, artist's own materials