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This is part of the ��������-Austrian creative exchange program for authors "AIR-Artist in Residence," regularly organized by Literaturhaus NÖ and the �������� Literary Centre.

Ivana Gibová received the Anasoft Litera Award 2024 for her book ��������č�첹© (Grandma©, Vlna, 2023), and she also won the Tatra Bank Foundation Award for Art 2024 Main Prize in the Literature category.

��������č�첹© is her fifth book. Set in the 1990s in a small-town housing estate, the story follows the main character Magdaléna, who grows up with her brother, an alcoholic father, a submissive mother, and a dominant grandmother. The childhood traumas of the protagonist carry into her adult life. Despite its heavy themes, the book is full of humor, irony, and cynicism.

Ivana Gibová’s book barbora, boch & katarzia (Marenčin, 2016) was translated into German. In 2021, it was published by the Viennese publisher Drava Verlag under the title Barbora, Himmelhergott & Katharsis, translated by Marie-Theres Cermann.

Literary Evening with Ivana Gibová and Soňa Uriková in Vienna

During the residency stays of Ivana Gibová in Krems and Soňa Uriková in Graz, which will take place in February and March, the �������� Institute in Vienna, in cooperation with the �������� Literary Centre, will organize a Literary Evening with both authors.

The event will take place on Tuesday, March 18, at 6:30PM at the �������� Institute in Vienna. The bilingual evening will be moderated in German and �������� by translator and writer Marián Hatala.

Atendees will hear excerpts in German from the books Dôvod na radosť (A Reason to Be Happy) by Soňa Uriková and ��������č�첹© (Grandma©) by Ivana Gibová, both of which won the Anasoft Litera Award. Excerpts from Ivana Gibová’s book barbora, boch & katarzia will also be read.