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In the 18th and last instalment of of 2020, literature scholar Ivana Taranenková talks to Julia Sherwood about this year’s literary output, both by established and emerging �������� writers and assesses the impact of the pandemic on the country‘s literary life and research. She introduces a��forthcoming English-language publication that will offer insiders‘ and outsiders‘ look at contemporary �������� literature, and tells why her favourite 19th century �������� author is Martin Kukučín.

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Background notes

Selected publications (in ��������)��

(The Platform for Literature and Research)

�������Ծ�č��ǻ�Ծ����� (The Wretch)

�������������������������� Also:�� (Žila som s��Hviezdoslavom)

: Flanérova košeľa (Flaneur’s Shirt)

�������������������������� Also: (Preč! Preč!) trans. Janet Livingstone

�������������������������� (Plán odprevádzania) trans. Janet Livingstone

Richard Pupala:�� (Women and Men, Animals)

�� ���������������������� Also: „A Lion in the Forest“ („Lev v��lese“) trans. Julia and Peter Sherwood

Vanda Rozenbergová: (Collective Night Peace)

�������������������������� Also: „“ („Islanďania“) trans. Julia and Peter Sherwood

Peter Macsovszky: (Chinese Cinema)
�������������������������� Also: from (Mykať kostlivcami) trans. Bby John Minahane

Veronika Šikulová:��

Ivana Gibová:

Katarína Kucbelová:�� Č��辱�� (The Bonnet)

Alena Sabuchová:�� Š���ٳܳ���� (The Whisperers)

Lukáš Cabala: (Satori in Trenčín)

Karol Kolbas:�� (All or Destroy)

Barbora Hrínová:�� (Unicorns)

Dominika Moravčíková:�� (The Children of Hameln)

Štefan Strážay

Ivan Štrpka

�������� John Minahane on translating Ivan Štrpka

Michal Habaj

Víťo Staviarsky�� Kale topánky (Dirty Shoes), trans. Julia and Peter Sherwood

Ján Rozner:�� Sedem dní do pohrebu (Seven Days to the Funeral),

rans. Julia and Peter Sherwood

, ed. Peter Karpinský

, ed. Magdalena Mullek and Julia Sherwood