Daniel Pixiades
Daniel Pixiades (; 5 July 1931) is a Yugoslav and Serbian poet of Slovak origin. He is the author of poetry collections in Slovak, Serbian and Croatian, and has been translated into many world languages. He is a member of the Association of Writers of Serbia, Slovakia, Vojvodina and Montenegro. Biography. Daniel Pixiades was born on July 5, 1931, in the town of Kisač in Vojvodina. He graduated from the teachers' school in Sombor in 1950. He worked as a teacher in Seleuš, Veliko Središte, Kulpin, Sremski Karlovci, Stari Bar and Sutomore. He worked for a year in the  Catering Chamber in Novi Sad. At the end of September 1974, he moved to Canada with his family. Today he lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Literary work. Pixiades collaborated with the Czechoslovak newspaper "Ljudove zvesci" and volunteered on the local Yugoslav radio station. In Canada, he was initially a contributor and then editor of the newspaper "Naše novine" (1977-1988), around which many poets from Canada and around the world gathered. There, Pixiades published poems, stories, essays and articles. He was a member of the Association "Desanka Maksimović". As he lived in the former Yugoslavia, Pixiades wrote songs in his  native Slovak and Serbo-Croatian languages. They have been published in magazines, poem collections and anthologies. He is a member of the Writers' Association of Slovakia, Serbia, Vojvodina and Montenegro. Published works. Pixiades combined poetry published in Serbian in Yugoslavia with poetry published in Canada in the collection of poems "Being Outside/Biti Izvan" (1976). The book was published by the publishing house "Kultura" in Bački Petrovac. The same publisher has published two more collections of songs by Pixiades in Serbian: "To the Heart of the Earth/Ka srcu zemlje" (2005) and "North from Everywhere/Odasvud sjever" (2006). In 2021 , the book "Water Festival" appeared in St. Petersburg, translated into Russian by the writer and translator Vladimir Baboshin (). In 2021, the book "In the Honor of the Grass" translated into Belarusian by Diana Lazarevich () was published in Belarus.