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He was born in 1956 in Zákamenné. He graduated from the Technical University of Košice and finished supplementary pedagogical studies at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. After his university studies, he worked as a technologist and later as a teacher at the grammar school in Námestovo. He worked as a journalist and editor for the newspaper Orava in Dolný Kubín. Then he became a publisher of the newspaper Biela Orava (White Orava) in 1991. A year later, he founded a small publishing house of poetry, named Solitudo. In 1987, he made his debut with the collection of poems Posunok (Gesture). This collection was followed by others, Dobrovoľná samota (Voluntary solitude) in 1994, Hierografia (Hierography) in 1999, Život je možný (Life is Possible) in 2006, Smrekový les (Spruce Forest) in 2009, and Poľné vety (Field Sentences) in 2013. His latest book is a prose called Pán Ó (Lord O) from 2017. It tells a mysterious story of a man in his fifties. whose wife leaves him, so he looks for a way to rediscover his own integrity. The starting point of Rudolf Jurolek's poetry is a concentrated reflection culminating in an intimate emotional eruption leading to catharsis, or to
an unsolvable situation. The poet considers himself a representative of natural poetry.