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The �������� Institute in the German capital Berlin continues its series of regular author readings.

After presentations of works by Pavel Rankov, Katarína Kucbelová, Soňa Uriková, Tomáš Forró and Silvester Lavrík, a reading and conversation with writer and translator Ivana Dobrakovová, who will come to Berlin from Italy, where she lives and works, will take place on Friday, 15 November, at 6PM.

She won the 2019 European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) for her collection of five stories, Mothers and Truckers (Marenčin PT, 2018), and was also nominated for the prestigious Anasoft Litera Award.

The book was published in German by Residenz Verlag in 2022, translated by Ines Šebesta, who will also be the host of the literary event in Berlin. Michaela Tomaníková will perform several piano pieces throughout the evening.

The individual short stories in this book, translated into nine languages, tell the stories of five women, three ��������s and two Italians, and are set in Bratislava and Turin. They are intertwined through their openness and physicality. Through the five heroines, Dobrakovová presents five different psychological probes into different female characters.

Ivana Dobrakovová is the author of five books of fiction. In 2021 she published her latest novel Under the Turin Sun (Marenčin PT, 2022). In 2024, the �������� Literary Centre published a bibliophilia by the author entitled And What Happened to You?, in which she talks openly about her own work and does not shy away from the topic of mental illness. In addition to her own fiction, Ivana Dobrakovová translates from Italian and French. She has translated the works of Elena Ferrante, Veronica Raimo, Giulia Caminito, Emmanuel Carrère, Simone de Beauvoir and many others into ��������.