Jonathan Gresty

Jonathan Gresty is a freelance teacher, translator, and novelist who has been living in Slovakia since 1992. He studied English Literature at university in his native UK, and over two decades later did a PhD in the Translation of Tourist Texts at the University of Prešov. Although most of his published translations are non-literary, he has translated the following novels and poetry collections:

photo by Peter Mayer

Book-length Translations

Preparation Line 57
by Peter Milčák
Modrý Peter, 2025
Fooliar Press, 2025
The Topography of Pain
by Ivan Lesay
Guernica Editions, 2024
Necklace/Choker
by Jana Bodnárová
Seagull Books, 2021
The Camp of Fallen Women
by Anton Baláž
The Forum of Slavic Cultures, 2016

Translation Anthologies

translator of the short story
“Peco”
by Richard Pupala