The English-language release of The Last Thing offers a synecdoche of the status of Slovak literature in translation: where the small nation’s extraordinary literary output is em
Hatchards are delighted to welcome Jan Zikmund of Karolinum Press along with translator Julia Sherwood and literary scholar Tim Beasley-Murray for a discussion of Slovak literature
when we were little everyone stayed at home in bad weather it was no time for going out now we go out in all weathers we sway to and fro waiting trembling with anticipation there a
Nicol Hochholczerová’s striking debut novel, This Room is Impossible to Eat is part fairy tale, part allegory, and one of the realest stories you’ll ever read. With effortless
The titular ‘seven lives’ of the Slovak journalist Agneša Kalinová are seven clearly defined periods in her life, closely corresponding with the huge historical changes that
My Seven Lives. Jana Juráňová in Conversation with Agneša Kalinová, published in Slovakia in 2012 by the feminist publishing house ASPEKT is the memoir of the journalist and f
Part I: The Brief and Extreme Loneliness of Jozef K Let’s call him Karsten, it’s one of those stupid, unreal sounding names. The two drubbers or hand rubbers, who c
The Night Circus and Other Stories is the second work by Uršuľa Kovalyk to appear in English, following her novel The Equestrienne (2016). The fifteen stories fuse tragedy and ab
Balla’s Big Love is a short novel about the stress of living under capitalism. Apparently an autobiographical work (according to the introduction, but one should always take such
Ivana Dobrakovová has been labelled an ‘expat writer’ because her stories often explore the experience of living abroad. She resides in Turin and is a talented translator of F
