Ján Johanides (1934–2008) was one of the most original writers of Slovak and Czechoslovak postwar literature. Born in northern Slovakia, he studied art history and aesthetics at Comenius University in Bratislava and subsequently worked as a company psychologist in a television manufacturing plant, as an...
Ivana Dobrakovova Ivana Dobrakovová (1982) is a writer and translator. She is based in Turin, where she works as a freelance translator from the French and Italian into Slovak, notably of Elena Ferrante’s highly successful Neapolitan saga. She has published a novel, Bellevue (2010), and several collections of...
On March 27 2019, Julia Sherwood received the Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav prize, awarded annually to a translator of Slovak literature into other languages and published outside the country. The jury noted the fact that, “jointly with her husband Peter Sherwood she has translated several key contemporary...
Krisztina Tóth is one of Hungary’s best known and most popular writers, and has received numerous prizes and awards for her work. Born in 1967, she studied sculpture and spent two of her university years in Paris. She lives in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, where she...
Noémi Szécsi, photo © Sándor Somfai Noémi Szécsi studied Latin, English and Finnish at the ELTE University of Budapest and wrote her first book A finnugor vámpír (The Finno-Ugrian Vampire, 2002) while holding a scholarship at the University of Helsinki in 2000. This...
Béla Hamvas (1897-1968) was an outstanding Hungarian philosopher, writer and social critic whose work integrated Eastern and Western philosophical traditions in seeking answers to contemporary (and eternal) existential issues. Born in Eperjes (Prešov, Slovakia), he moved to Hungary after World War I and worked as...
Miklós Vámos, photo Eszter Gordon Miklós Vámos is a Hungarian novelist, screenwriter and talk show host. He is one of the most read and respected writers in his native Hungary. He has taught playwriting and scriptwriting at Yale University on a...
Peter Krištúfek is a fiction writer, scriptwriter and film director. Since graduating from the Bratislava Academy of Performing Arts in film and TV directing he has pursued a career in film and television, making his literary debut with a collection of short fiction Nepresné miesto (An Inaccurate Place,...
Ján Rozner (1922 – 2006) was a leading Slovak journalist, literary, theatre and film critic and theorist, and translator from German and English. Following the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 Rozner and his wife Zora Jesenská, a distinguished translator of Russian literature, both...
Petra Procházková is an award-winning Czech journalist, humanitarian worker and writer. In 1994, with fellow journalist Jaromír Štětina, she founded the private news agency Epicentrum, dedicated to war reporting in Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, East Timor, Georgia, Nagorny Karabakh, Kashmir, Kurdistan, Ossetia, and Tajikistan. On her...
Daniela Kapitáňová is a Slovak writer and broadcaster. Born in Komárno, she studied theatre directing at the Film Academy of Dramatic Arts in Prague. She currently works for the Slovak State Radio and lives in Bratislava, writing regular satirical columns for several daily newspapers. Since...
Interview with Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki on Writers and Translators website Buy Lullaby for a Hanged Man from Calypso Editions or at Amazon.com Buy Uspávanka pre obesenca at Artforum.sk The Wall, a short story in The Missing Slate Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki is a Polish writer and poet. After studying theology and philosophy and travelling around Europe, he spent...
Jana Juráňová is an acclaimed Slovak writer, playwright, essayist, translator and publisher, co-founder and editor of the feminist educational and publishing project ASPEKT. She lives in Bratislava. She has written several theatre and radio plays, children’s stories and short stories. Her latest collection of short stories...
Uršuľa Kovalyk photo © Lucia Gardin Uršuľa Kovalyk is a poet, fiction writer, playwright and social worker. She was born in Košice, eastern Slovakia, and now lives in the capital, Bratislava. After working for a women’s non-profit focusing on women’s rights she currently...
Balla (who goes only by his surname) has been called the “chief alchemist of Slovak literature”, “the Slovak Kafka” and ”the uncrowned king of Slovak outsiders and misfits”. He made his name with a short story collection, Leptokaria, in 1996, and has since published nine further...
Radka Denemarková is a Czech writer, playwright, literary historian, essayist, and translator. Based in Prague, she has taught creative writing and worked as dramaturg at the Theatre on the Balustrade. Author of four novels, a play, and two nonfiction books, her 2006 novel Peníze od...