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The novel Šeptuchy / The Whispererswritten byԲܳDZá and taking place in the region ofPodlasie,a rustic woodsyregionbetween Poland and Belarus, won theAnasoft Litera Award 2020.The laureate was chosenfrom among158 book publishedin2019 by a 5-member jury:literary scientistsLubomír Machala,Michal JarešԻPeter F. 'Rius Jílekand literaryjournalistsZuzana BelkováԻJozef Dado Nagy.
Before she wrote the her book,Alena Sabuchová had been going to north-east Poland for about two years, meeting and talking with locals. She visited the local healers – whisperers. "I never would have believed that the world I found in Podlasie really existed," the author writes in thepreface of the book. And who are these folk healers? "The whisperers are women who practice the art of whispering through which they heal. They heal and they pray. It's been said that they can bring people back to health and solve problems. For me they represented, most of all, an experience with faith. Sometimes, they are people'slast hope. For the locals they are an enormous authority," Sabuchová said in the video document thatJana Bučka and Michal Fulier shot for Anasoft Litera.
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The readers' prize went to the novel ofٱíPosledná barónka/ The Last Baroness.
