Silvia Majerská

Born in 1984 in Slovakia, Silvia Majerska grew up in Trnava. She studied french literature and linguistics at Université d'Orléans and Sorbonne University. In 2013, she defended a Phd thesis at both Sorbonne University and Comenius University of Bratislava. Her research focuses on the stylistics and semiotics of figurative language. She teaches French as a foreign language in Paris.

She contributes to revues in France (À Verse, La Traductière, Place de la Sorbonne, Francopolis, Po&sie) and Slovakia (Tvorba, Ostium, Vlna). She translates contemporary Slovak poetry into French:

Un fragment de forêt (chevaleresque) by Ivan Štrpka (éditions Le Castor Astral, 2019) Immunité by Mária Ferenčuhová (éditions La Traductière, 2019)

Tendre navette spatiale - Nouvelle poésie slovaque. Anthology by Katarína Kucbelová and Peter Šulej (editions La Rumeur libre, 2024).

She is a member of an artists' collective called Le Lieu improbable, with whom she co-founded a non-profit publishing house Le Feu humain.

Her first collection of poetry, Matin sur le soleil, was published in 2020 by Le Cadran ligné, and her second, Blancs-seings, was published in autumn 2024 by Gallimard.