František Lipka
František Lipka (born 22 February 1946 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak diplomat, poet and translator, who contributed to the process of the creation of independent Montenegro.Lipka studied Slovak and the Serbo-Croatian language at the School of Philosophy of the Comenius University in Bratislava (1969).He worked as an external editor of the World Literature Revue magazine, cooperated with magazines "Smena na nedeľu" (Sunday Smena), "Mladá tvorba" (Young Creation), "Slovenské pohľady" (Slovak Views), Romboid; he alternated between posts as a lecturer of the Slovak language and literature at the University of Novi Sad School of Philosophy and at the Comenius University in Bratislava, lecturing on the history of Serbian and Croatian literature.His poetry is characterized by a rational attitude, striving to penetrate national and humankind's universal history, bringing back motives from ancient history with the objective of understanding the presence of humankind in its contemporary social, cultural and ecological environment.His statements often carry a super-personal aspect, creates an impression of an intellectual and analytical cognition of reality.