Slovak Literature in English Translation

Peter Macsovszky (1966) studied Slovak, English, and art at the Pedagogical University in Nitra. He is currently based in Perth, Australia, having spent six years living in Enschede, Holland, followed by three years in Brazil. Macsovszky has worked as a nurse, newspaper and publishing house editor, schoolteacher, copywriter and editor of the Slovak edition of Readers’ Digest. A bilingual writer, he has published books in both Slovak and Hungarian. His works include five novels, six volumes of short fiction and four nonfiction books, eight volumes of poetry written in Slovak, as well as seven collections of poetry and one volume of prose  in Hungarian. He has also translated a number of books from Hungarian into Slovak.  Macsovszky’s work has appeared in literary journals in English, Czech, Hungarian, German, Polish and Slovene. Two of his novels were longlisted for Slovakia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Anasoft Litera, and his novel Tantalópolis (2015) won that prize in 2016. He is the recipient of the Miklós Mészöly prize and the Ján Hollý prize for his translation of Miklós Szentkuthy’s book Burgundská kronika (Burgundy Chronicle). His most recent work, the collection of stories and novellas Pimparapipa!, was a finalist for the 2025 Anasoft Litera Prize.