Eliáš Galajda

Eliáš entered the world of literature in the early 1960s with his first collection of poems published within collective work of writers The Eight (Vosmero, 1963). In 1974, he debuted successfully with the wide poem collection Flame ups (Spalakhi). One could feel his growing up and reaching the poetry maturity in his collections The thirst of the Heart and the Land (Spraha sertsia i zemli, 1981), Insomnia (Bezsonya, 1986), The Ballad for three suns (Balada pro tri sontsia, 1991), especially in the poems devoted to his homeland, childhood memories and those with themes where he confronts his inner world with harsh reality. He dived deeper into lyric (emotional) contemplation of destiny and perspective of man as such in poem collections Mountains, Blue Mountains (Hori sini, hori, 1990) and My everyday sadness (Moia petchalj povsiakdenna, 1994). The Union of Rusyn-Ukrain writers of Slovak republic honored the 40 Anniversary of his work and publishments by bibliography Crane birds calling (Zhuravlinnyij klič, 1998). He continued to publish with his poem collections as: Restlessness paves the way (Trivohami doroha stelitjsia, 2001), Forgotten notebooks verses (Virshi iz zabutikh zoshitiv, 2006) and Autumn reflections (Osinni refleksii, 2011).

Galajda, a poet, alslo authored prose in short stories and novels: When the rain is coming (Koli idutj doshchi, 1980) a Still sings a skylark (Cshe spivaie zhaivoronok, 1989).

Solar wells (Soňačni krynyci, 1977) Anthology of poetry of the Ukraine writers in Slovakia
From forge of time (Iz kuzni času, 2007) Anthology of contemporary Slovak poetry (Z vyhne času, 2007).

Galajda has been active in translating from Ukrainian and Russian language to Slovak language and vice versa. He translated the Bernardo Guimarães novel Izaura (1995) from Russian to Slovak, the work of Jozef Leikert Transientness (Pominutelnost, 2006).

A part of Eliáš's work had been translated into Slovak language and published in collective works of writers such as Heart as a sun (Srdce ako since 1892),Such moments exist (Sú také chvíle 2002). Or in Czech collective work of writers Dawning under Carphatians (Rano pod Karpatami 1983), short stories and poems in Hungarian translation Carphatian song (A Karpátok éneke 1988). Some samples of his poems were also published in the anthology of short stories of Ukrainian nationality writers in ČSSR – Roots (Korene, 1990).