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
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
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
