title: Ján Brezina
text: # Ján Brezina
  
  Ján Brezina (1 January 1917 in Východná – 4 August 1997 in Bratislava) was a Slovak poet, literary historian and theoretician.
  
  He was an employee of the Slovak Academy of Sciences since 1943, of the Slovak Matica and from 1970 - 1973 director of the Institute for Literal History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
  
  ## Works
  
  Poems:
  
  * Nikdy sa nestretnem (I will never meet)
  * Okrídlený deň (A day with wings)
  * Nočné bdenie (Night waking)
  * Horúcou linkou (By a hotline)
  
  Literary history:
  
  * Slovenská poézia v revolučných rokoch 1917-1922 (Slovak poetry in the revolutionary years 1917-1922)
  