A novel by Radka Denemarková, (jointly translated from the Czech Příspěvek k dějinám radosti) Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, September 22, 2026 ISBN: 9781566897662 Link to order here The fourth novel by acclaimed Czech writer Radka Denemarková, and her second to be published in English, A Contribution to the...
(English title: Chasing Blue) Slovart, 2023, 216 pp (c 39 620 words) 978-80-556-6382-1 Literary prizes 2024 shortlisted for the Anasoft Litera Prize 2025 shortlisted for the Visegrad Literary Award Rights sold: Germany (Suhrkamp Verlag) Serbia (IK Prometej) Foreign rights contact: Suhrkamp Verlag https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/chasing-blue-fr-9783518433287 In this original, thought-provoking and often humorous book – her second work of prose...
Maraton, 2023, 264 pp 978-80-884-1124-6 Literary prizes 2025 Visegrad Literary Award (includes a sum towards an English or German translation) 2024 Magnesia Litera – Book of the Year 2023 The Czech Literary Foundation’s Prize Rights sold: Russia (Ivan Limbakh Publishers) Serbia (IK Prometej) Foreign rights contact: Maraton Publishers maraton@emaraton.cz Russian literature scholar and translator Alena Machoninová’s...
An anthology of 10 short stories set in Slovakia’s capital Comma Press, March 2026. ISBN-10 1917093071, ISBN-13 978-1-917093071 An anthology of short stories co-edited by Julia Sherwood and Radoslav Passia. Various authors and translators, including a short story by Lajos Grendel, translated from Hungarian by Peter Sherwood Link...
A long poem by Katarína Kucbelová (jointly translated from the Slovak K bielej) Seagull Books, Calcutta, October 2025, ISBN 978-1803095639 link to buy here “Kucbelová delivers her bleak vision through vivid, haunting, cinematic images, and the Sherwoods render her unique voice into equally majestic and melodic English.” - Zuzana Slobodová, Times...
(jointly translated from the Slovak Posledná vec) Karolinum Press, Prague, April 2025, ISBN 978-80-246-6041-7 Shortlisted for the inaugural Adam Freudenheim Translation Prize, 2026 link to buy here A video of the prize announcement on 12 February 2026, with the judges introducing the ten shortlisted books and readings by the translators...
(jointly translated from the Slovak Táto izba sa nedá zjesť) Parthian Books, Cardigan, May 2025, Print ISBN 978-1-917140-41-6; EBook ISBN 978-1-917140-42-3, Paperback, March 2026 ISBN 978-1-913830-48-9 “In this superb translation by Julia and Peter Sherwood, Hochholczerová joins the ranks of major European novelists. Nicol Hochholczerová’s striking debut...
Illustrated by Krystyna Lipka-Sztarbałło (translated from the Polish Latające żyrafy by Julia Sherwood) Dajama, Bratislava September 2024, ISBN 978-08-136-1708 link to buy here...
Translated from the Hungarian by Peter Sherwood Budapest, Magvető, August 2024, ISBN 978-963-14-4435-3 link to buy here (currently in Hungary only)...
(jointly translated from the Slovak Čepiec) Seagull Books, Calcutta, June 2024, ISBN 978-18-030-9352-9 link to buy here “This is a sensitive, elegantly translated and sometimes humorous story, which does much to make visible a remote, forgotten corner of Eastern Europe.” Ursula Phillips, Riveting Reviews, September 2024 A multilingual reading from The...
(jointly translated from the Slovak Sedem dní do pohrebu) Karolinum Press, Prague, March 2024, ISBN 978-80-246-5633-5 link to buy here “Julia and Peter Sherwood certainly deserve a great deal of credit for turning 450 pages of detailed rumination and recollection into a fascinating and, yes, entertaining read by wisely...
An anthology of 10 short stories that includes “The Memory” by Jan Zábrana, (jointly translated from the Czech) Comma Press, Manchester, October 2023, ISBN 978-1912697786 link to buy here...
(jointly translated from the Slovak Liečiteľ) Seagull Books, Calcutta, August 2023, ISBN 978-180-30916-2-4 Link to buy here The Healer by Marek Vadas – Julia Sherwood reads an excerpt on the YouTube channel Translators Aloud...
Illustrations and graphic design by Lech Majewski (translated from Polish Świat zwariował. Poradnik surrealistyczny. Jak przeżyć into Slovak by Julia Sherwood) Petrus, Bratislava, ISBN 978-80-89913-95-4, June 2023 “This book is bound to be a magical balm to our soul exhausted by worries and anxieties”, Olga Tokarczuk on...
(jointly translated from the Czech Divoši) Centrala, Brighton, ISBN 978-1-912278-38-1, May 2023 Link to buy here...
(translated from the Hungarian Vonalkód by Peter Sherwood) Jantar Publishing, London, ISBN 978-1-914990-16-8, March 2023. Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Finalist for the 2024 EBRD Literature Prize “An exceptional writer”, Declan O’Driscoll, The Irish Times “Krisztina Tóth is a...
(jointly translated from the Slovak Rok dobrých správ), Boxer Books and Union Square Books, 2023, ISBN-13 9781914912498 A compilation of two books, originally published by Monokel in 2021 (ISBN 978-80-8254-006-1) and 2022 (ISBN 978-80-8234-016-0), now out of print Link to buy here A video in which author Martin...
(jointly translated from the Czech Sestry Dietlovy) Centrala, Brighton, ISBN 978-1-912278-20-6, October 2022 “…Mašek has a handle on his subject matter and we are led towards a suitably twisted and chilling conclusion to this dark, brooding and atmospheric story.” John Aye, Broken Frontier, 14 February 2023. “Reading Vojtěch Mašek’s The...
(jointly translated from the Slovak) Jantar Publishing, London, ISBN 978-1-914990-11-3, June 2022 Link to buy here. Shortlisted for the 2023 European Bank for Research and Development Literary Prize “Dobrakovová’s writing is direct, achieving its effectiveness through the inherent candour of her disparate and desperate women.” Declan O’Driscoll, The Irish Times, 25...
(Jointly translated from the Slovak Dunaj. Magická rieka) Illustrated by Simona Čechová. Monokel, 2021 Also by this author --> Bratislava. The Magic Metropolis...
(jointly translated from the Slovak Trestajúci zločin) Karolinum Press, Prague, ISBN 978-80-246-5014-2 (paperback); ISBN 978-80-246-5128-6 (pdf); ISBN 978-80-246-5129-3 (epub); ISBN 978-80-246-5130-9 (mobi), June 2022 Link to buy here. “Johanides’s narrative is so full of irony, witty, wise and paradoxical, that readers will find themselves smiling and aghast at the...
(translated from the Hungarian Verhovina madarai by Peter Sherwood) Jantar Publishing, November 2021, SBN 978-1-914990-03-8 (hardback limited edition), 978-1-914990-04-5 (paperback|, 978-1-914990-05-2 (ebook) Shortlisted for the 2022 European Bank for Research and Development Literary Prize “Bodor’s prose, in Peter Sherwood’s lithe translation, is casual and chatty, but also nuanced,...
(Translated jointly from the Slovak Bratislava. Čarovná metropola) Illustrated by Simona Čechová-Smatana. Monokel, 2018, Revised edition, 2025. Link to buy here...
(jointly translated from the Slovak Mojich sedem životov. Agneša Kalinová v rozhovore s Janou Juráňovou) Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Indiana, ISBN-13 9781612497228 (paperback), ISBN-13 1612497209 (hardback), October 2021. “If you ever wondered why some Jews in Europe did not try to escape, or why some Holocaust survivors returned...
(translated from the Hungarian Moszkvában esik by Erika Mihálycsa with Peter Sherwood) Contra Mundum Press, New York, London, Melbourne, ISBN 978-1-940625-39-3, 31 October 2020 “It’s Raining in Moscow is an experimental family saga for the Anthropocene, and an astute and witty one at that. A tour de force.”...
(jointly translated from the Czech) Parthian Books, Cardigan, 2020, ISBN 978-1-912681-50-1, ebook ISBN 978-1-913640-00-2, 1 October 2020 Longlisted for the 2021 European Bank for Research and Development Literary Prize “Hana has won many awards, been turned into a play and the film rights have been bought. It has...
(jointly translated from the Slovak) Jantar Publishing, London, ISBN 978-0-9934467-7-1, October 2019 Longlisted for the 2021 European Bank for Research and Development Literary Prize Link to buy here “But the key role in making Balla’s – and Dobrakovová’s – fiction so readable for a British audience is played by the...
(jointly translated from the Slovak Veľká láska) Jantar Publishing, London, ISBN 978-0-9933773-5-8, October 2019 “But the key role in making Balla’s – and Dobrakovová’s – fiction so readable for a British audience is played by the translators, Julia and Peter Sherwood. With their linguistic skills and perfect...
(jointly translated from the Slovak Travesty šou) Parthian Books, Cardigan, ISBN: 978-1-912681-04-4, April 2019 “Ordinary realism might be enough if your world is ordinary and realistic, but the reality that she represents, whose grittiness and surrealism is so wonderfully rendered from the Slovak by Julia and Peter...
(jointly translated from the Slovak Letmý sneh) Istros Books, London, ISBN: 978-1-908236-37-1 May 2018 “Vilikovský’s prose, in Julia and Peter Sherwood’s translation, is light and graceful; and the tone is more often gently humorous than elegiac. This is an unusual and original work that resists easy categorisation...
(translated from the Russian Вундеркинд Ержан into Slovak by Julia Sherwood) published by Inaque, Bratislava, ISBN 978-80-89737-51-2; e-book ISBN 978-80-89737-61-1, May 2017. “The inability to grow, develop, live a fulfilled life, start a family, maintain proper relationships with other people has affected several characters of The Dead...
(jointly translated from the Slovak V mene otca) With an introduction by Gábor Németh and an afterword by Marta Součková, published by Jantar Publishing, London, ISBN 978-80-89737-51-2; e-book ISBN 978-80-89737-61-1, May 2017. Longlisted for the 2018 European Bank for Research and Development Literature Prize “A series of short...
Edited by Magdalena Mullek and Julia Sherwood Features 16 authors, including Balla, Jana Beňová, Ivana Dobrakovová, Uršuľa Kovalyk, Peter Macsovszky, Veronika Šikulová, Víťo Staviarsky and Marek Vadas (translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood). Published in the US by Three String Books (Slavica Publishers), Bloomington, IN ISBN 978-089357-466-6 and in the...
(translated from the Slovak, Czech, Russian, German and Polish by Julia Sherwood) Published by Salon, Bratislava, February 2017 ...
Edited by Zsuzsanna Varga (translated from the Hungarian by Peter Sherwood) MHRA Studies in Comparative Literature, 46. Published by Oxford: Legenda. February 2017. “This is a beautifully produced and judiciously edited selection of essays by a major writer from early-twentieth-century Hungary…. [Szerb’s] findings on Byron, Shelley and Keats may...
(translated from the Hungarian A bor filozófiája by Peter Sherwood) Published by Medio Kiadó, Budapest, September 2016 “[O]ne cannot but marvel at Hamvas’s vital, sensual and synaesthetic employment of various senses and sensibilities; and in this respect, one must acknowledge the book’s marvellously vivid and vivacious translation...
(jointly translated from the Polish Kołysanka dla wisielca) Published by Calypso Editions, Philadelphia, 2015 Anna Blasiak’s review on the European Literature Network website....
(translated from the English The Memory Chalet into Slovak by Julia Sherwood) With an introduction by Martin M. Šimečka, Salon, Bratislava, June 2015 Ľubomír Jaško’s review in the daily SME Eva Čobejová’s review in the weekly .týždeň...
(jointly translated, from the Slovak original Žila som s Hviezdoslavom) Published by Calypso Editions, Philadelphia, 2014. Excerpt online in BODYLiterature. Review in Pseudointellectualreviews: “Ilona is therefore a feminist work but this is an undogmatic feminism capable of a nuanced look at women in recent European history.” Link to buy here...
(jointly translated from the Slovak original Dom hluchého) Published by Parthian Books, Cardigan, 2014. Philip Clement’s review in The New Welsh Review, March 2015 Kathryn Murphy’s review in the Times Literary Supplement, 3.4.2015: “The father’s increasing deafness, which gives the book its title, is paralleled by Krištúfek’s indictment of a nation that...
(jointly translated from the Slovak Krasojazdkyňa) Published by Parthian Books, Cardigan, July 2016, ISBN 978-1-910901-51-9 Reprinted in 2021, ISBN 978-1-9136408-2-8 Shortlisted for the 2018 European Bank for Research and Development Literary Prize “An arresting tale of equestrian daring and a young girl’s coming of age set during the final...
(translated into Slovak from the Polish Kołysanka dla wisielca by Julia Sherwood) Salon, Bratislava, March 2013; ISBN 978-80-97126-8-2 “If there is such a thing as Central European literature that transcends the boundaries of this region, I sincerely believe that this book forms a part of it. Despite...
(translated from the Hungarian original A finnugor vámpír by Peter Sherwood) Published by Stork Press, London, 2012. North American edition published by Marion Boyars Publishers, New York and London, 2013. Michael A. Morrison’s review in World Literature Today: “The Finno-Ugrian Vampire belongs at the top of your “must-read” list.’...
(translated from the Czech Frišta by Julia Sherwood) Published by Stork Press, London, 2012 “Petra Procházková’s assured debut, Freshta, a bitter-sweet hymn to Afghanistan told from an outsider’s perspective”, Lucy Popescu in The Huffington Post:...
A short novel (translated from the Slovak original Samko Tále: kniha o cintoríne by Julia Sherwood) Published by Garnett Press Books, London, 2011. Read excerpt in The Missing Slate William Boyd in Books of the Year The Guardian, November 2010 Michael Orthofer’s review in The Complete Review Magdalena Mullek’s review in Asymptote Rajendra Chitnis’s review in the Times...
(translated from the Hungarian Apák könyve by Peter Sherwood) Published by Abacus (an imprint of Little, Brown), London, 2006 (trade paperback). Paperback format reissue, London, 2007. US edition published by Other Press, New York, 2009; second printing, 2010. Jane Smiley’s review in the New York Times Book Review, October...