Ilona.
My Life with the Bard

by Jana Juráňová
translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood
Calypso Editions, Philadelphia

2014
154 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-0-9887903-5-3

The short novel Ilona. My Life with the Bard paints a non-traditional portrait of one of Slovakia’s most important poets of the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, narrated from the perspective of his little-known wife.