Péter Hunčík (born 25 May 1951) is a Slovak psychiatrist and literary author of Hungarian ethnicity.
[2] In late 2009, shortly before his 59th birthday, he won the prestigious Sándor Bródy prize, given annually to an author for the best first novel of the year.
[3] As a psychiatrist, he authored several books,[4] such as Tension Anticipation System (with Sándor Bordás, 1999), and its original, Hungarian version, Feszültség-Előrejelző Rendszer (1999).
He strongly opposed the separation of Czechoslovakia into the independent countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Péter Hunčík lives in the town of Dunajská Streda where he owns a private practice in psychiatry.