Ivan Krasko

Ivan Krasko (real name Ján Botto, pseudonyms Bohdana J. Potokinová, Ivan Krasko, Janko Cigáň, 12 July 1876 in Lukovištia (Lukovistye) – 3 March 1958 in Bratislava) was a Slovak poet, translator and representative of modernism in Slovakia.

He was born into a peasant family in Lukovištia, a village in the Gemer (Gömör) region.

After end of the war, he returned to Czechoslovakia and started working as a politician, becoming a member of parliament and a senator of the Agrarian Party.

He started writing poems during his grammar school studies, but he published first of them only in 1896, called Pieseň nášho ľudu (app.

The topics include: social inequality, Magyarisation of the Slovak nation, passivity of young generation and also his personal sadness.