Peter Jaroš (1940) – Writer, scriptwriter and literary adviser. At first he wrote both poetry and prose, but eventually he concentrated solely on writing prose works and on film and television scripts. He focuses mainly on everyday life, the tiny details and facts accompanying the formation of relationships (love, friendship), but also questions and problems of life and death. His works, influenced by existentialism and the antinovel, incline towards a comic and sarcastic view of conventional values and relationships. His most successful work is the multigenerational novel Tisícročná včela/The Millennial Bee (1979), which was made into a successful film. In the novel Psy sa ženia / Dogs Marry (1990) the author uses the story of a writer who comes to a small town to find material for his next literary work to portray the ambivalence and insincerity of interpersonal relations in society. Peter Jaroš is a screenwriter and the author of a number of radio plays. Several feature and television films have been made according to his scenarios.