On 17 May 2017 Balla and Ivana Dobrakovová were the first two Slovak authors to board the EurolitNetwork train to fame at Waterstones Piccadilly, with Rosie Goldsmith welcoming th
With Balla and Ivana Dobrakovová 17 May, 7pm, Waterstones Piccadilly, more info and tickets Balla, who goes only by his surname has a day job in the local council’s audit office
In the Name of the Father Written by Balla Translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood Published by Jantar (2017) “The Slovak Kafka” Rosie Goldsmith, Journalist and Director of the
Into the Spotlight: New Writing from Slovakia Edited and translated by Magdalena Mullek and Julia Sherwood Published by Parthian Books (2017) Into the Spotlight features the best
I’m an ordinary, forgettable man…..the difference between me and most men is that I’m heartless and say so while others are heartless but don’t let on. The narrator of Ball
Ivana Dobrakovová graduated from Bratislava’s Comenius University with a degree in English and French (translation and interpreting). She is based in Turin where she works as a
Balla, who goes only by his surname has a day job in the local council’s audit office in Nové Zámky, a provincial town in southern Slovakia. Since his first short story collect
