Radoslav Passia

Radoslav Passia is a literary scholar and senior researcher at the Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He studied at the University of Prešov and Charles University in Prague, served as editor-in-chief of the literary magazines Romboid and Knižná revue (The Book Review) and is the co-founder of the online critical magazine plav.sk, and regularly speaks about contemporary literature on Radio Devín, the public radio station dedicated to culture and art. His research focus is Slovak literature of the 20th and 21st centuries in the Central European context and he has published several books in this field as author or editor. He was the team leader of a research project that resulted in the award-winning book Literárne krajiny Bratislavy. Obraz mesta po roku 1918 (Bratislava’s Literary Landscapes. A Portrait of the City after 1918) in 2023.