Frantisek Lipka (born on 22 February 1946 in Bratislava, Slovakia) is a Slovak diplomat, poet and translator. He began working with poetry during his university studies, with a debut of sensitive and reflexive lyric poetry”Stvanica” (Hunt). His poetry is characterized by a rational attitude, striving to penetrate national and humankind’s universal history, bringing back motives from ancient history with the objective of understanding the presence of humankind in its contemporary social, cultural and ecological environment. His statements often carry a super-personal aspect, creates an impression of an intellectual and analytical cognition of reality.