Slovak Literature in English Translation

Bellevue, originally published by Marenčin PT in 2010, was Ivana Dobrakovová’s second book. The novel offers an unflinching portrayal of gradual descent into mental illness as it follows the experience of a young Slovak woman in an international youth camp at a centre for disabled people near Marseille. The book was longlisted for the 2020 European Bank for Research and Development Literary Prize.