Anton Popovič was a fundamental Slovak

Slovaks

The Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...

 translation scientist and text theoretician, belonging to the school of Nitra

Nitra

Nitra is a city in western Slovakia, situated at the foot of Zobor Mountain in the valley of the river Nitra. With a population of about 83,572, it is the fifth largest city in Slovakia. Nitra is also one of the oldest cities in Slovakia and the country's earliest political and cultural center...

. He was among the first to apply semiotic theory to the study of translation in his book "Teória umeleckého prekladu" [Theory of artistic translation], 1975. Considering translation a particular case of metacommunication, he coined the terms "prototext" and "metatext", that are currently used to signify what was once known as "source text" and "target text". He also coined the term "translationality" (prevodnost'), signifying the features of a text that denounce it as a translated text, and the term "creolization

Creolization

Creolization is a concept that refers to the process in which new African American cultures emerge in the New World. As a result of colonization there was a mixture between people of indigenous, African, and European decent, which became to be understood as Creolization...

", meaning something in between a source culture text and a target culture text.
His books are translated into Italian, German, Russian.