Silvia Majerská

08. 10. 2025

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.