“A translator has to be a writer, painter, and empath.”
An interview with translator Janet Livingstone
April 2022 Literary News from Slovakia
Anasoft Litera longlist, European Literary House in Kremnica
Women and Men, Animals
Read an excerpt from Richard Pupala’s book translated by Julia Sherwood
Boat Number Five shortlisted for EBRD Literature Prize 2022
Written by Monika Kompaníková, translated by Janet Livingstone, published by Seagull Books
Fragments of the Vanishing Speech
Contemporary Slovak Poetry Part II
Slovak AI Poetry Wins a National Poetry Prize
An essay by Ivana Hostová on the neural network “poet” Liza Gennart
“Liza seems to want a bright future, not just a virtual imagination”
Ivana Hostová interviews poet Zuzana Husárová for Asymptote
Richard Pupala nominated for EUPL 2022
Slovak author Richard Pupala is one of this year’s nominees for the European Union Prize for Literature
“…moments of high drama and tragedy co-exist effortlessly with everyday life.”
Michael Stein reviews My Seven Lives
A review of It Happened on the First of September
Michael Kopanic reviews Pavol Rankov’s It Happened on the First of September (or Some Other Time)