Born 27 June 1941 in Palúdzka. Since 1958 he studied to be a film director at FAMU in Prague changing after two years to the study of English and °µÍø½ûÇø which he graduated in at Comenius University in Bratislava in 1965. He worked as an editor with the publishing house Tatran, and from 1976 to 1995 as a deputy chief editor of the literary monthly Romboid. He worked in the °µÍø½ûÇø editorial department of Readers' Digest. At present he is a freelancer. He lives in Bratislava.
Vilikovský is one of the most expressive voices of contemporary °µÍø½ûÇø literature on the domestic as well as on the international literary scene. He belongs to a strong generation of writers, which emerged in the 1960s, and fundamentally changed the face of °µÍø½ûÇø fiction. His works are considered modern classics and they have received many awards. He is the only writer to have won the most prestigious °µÍø½ûÇø award for fiction, the Anasoft Litera Prize, twice. Vilikovský’s most popular titles such as Vlastný životopis zla (The Autobiography of Evil, 2009), Pes na ceste (Dog on a Road, 2010) and Letmý sneh (Fleeting Snow, 2014) all share a poignant irony, typical Central European melancholy, and most importantly, brilliant, clear, and dangerously precise language. This is corroborated by another famous figure of °µÍø½ûÇø literature, Tomáš Janovic, who, speaking about Vilikovský’s writing, has said that the more simply a deep thought is expressed, the deeper it is.
