Slovaklit

Fresh off the press - The Book of Bratislava, the latest addition to the @commapress series Reading the City. At London Book Fair With Dado Nagy of the Slovak Literary Centre and editors Isabella Barber and @JuliaSherwood

📘THE BOOK OF BRATISLAVA - Pub Feb 12 Eds. @JuliaSherwood & @RadoslavPassia Ft. Lajos Grendel, Igor Hochel, Barbora Hrínová, Jana Juráňová, Lucia Piussi, Richard Pupala, Ján Rozner, Rudolf Sloboda, Alta Vášová & Eva Vozárová. commapress.co.uk/books/the-book…

On 27 November, Julia Sherwood, Peter Darovec, Martin Janeček and Michael Stein talked about our Modern Slovak Classics series at the Artforum bookshop in Bratislava. @JuliaSherwood @literalab @ARTFORUM_Kozia

“Pain is a privilege of the living.” The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, tr. by Julia and Peter Sherwood @KarolinumPress @JuliaSherwood roughghosts.com/2025/10/30/pai…

Recently someone posted a book w/ narrow margins. Here's another, but I'm fine with it b/c it has one of the most readable fonts I've ever encountered. And it's filled with stories that can only be described as absurd realist set in Slovakia during and after WWII. @KarolinumPress

On International Translation Day, we are delighted to introduce our collaborator in the Modern Slovak Classics series, the London-based @JuliaSherwood Julia and her husband Peter Sherwood together translate from five languages in total. She is not only active as a translator but also as a tireless promoter of Slovak and Czech literature abroad. Just yesterday, Julia launched our new title at Hatchards Piccadilly in London — the English edition of The Last Thing by Leopold Lahola, which she co-translated with Peter Sherwood. As Julia said: “Lahola is almost forgotten in Slovakia and virtually unknown abroad, although his harrowing stories rank among the most powerful literary portrayals of the Holocaust. I hope that the publication of his stories in English will pave the way for further translations into other languages and will help Lahola’s work to become a part of the canon of world literature.” Find more about our translators on the blog: karolinum.cz/en/blog/anketa…

FICTION FROM WAR TIME SLOVAKIA On 29 Sep, @Hatchards Piccadilly is hosting an evening of Slovak literature! 📚 A trio featuring Jan Zikmund of @KarolinumPress, translator @JuliaSherwood, and literary scholar @timb_m will discuss Slovak #literature: bit.ly/FictionFromWar…

POETRY TRAVELS with Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo: WHITEWARDS No. 36 by Katarína Kucbelová, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood eurolitnetwork.com/poetry-travels…

Please join us for this Study of Central Europe seminar with author Nicol Hochholczerová, who will discuss her debut novel 'This Room is Impossible to Eat'. Translated by @JuliaSherwood and Peter Sherwood. 🗓️ 06 May at 6pm BST 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ buff.ly/2uI5ZFJ

These are some of the books that the new presidential administration is trying to kill. Please help us publish them despite @DOGE's termination of our @NEHgov grant! If you wish to help us, please consider one of the following: 1. Donate yourself if you can: community.alumni.harvard.edu/give/42361308 2. If your company/employer has a social responsibility program, invite them to support our work at this time—they can contact me directly for details. 3. If you know someone who is wealthy enough to meaningfully support us, please ask them to do so—I'd be happy to talk about this with them. 4. Buy our books for yourself, your friends, family, or colleagues: books.huri.harvard.edu 5. Invite your local public or university library to buy our books—or buy these books yourself and donate to your library: books.huri.harvard.edu THANK YOU!! #HURIbooks #UkrainianLiterature #UkrainianCulture #UkrainianHistory @HURI_Harvard #DOGE #HandsOff #NEH #StandWithUkraine

Inspiring literary evening with 🇸🇰 writer, economist, political scientist @IvanLesay. His novel "Topography of Pain" was recently published by @guernica_ed in 🇨🇦. #goodbook

Parthian Books is delighted to announce the upcoming UK release of Nicol Hochholczerová’s ‘This Room is Impossible to Eat’, masterfully translated from the Slovak by Julia and Peter Sherwood. Available to pre-order from @parthianbooks website and be in UK bookshops from 1/3/2025

This Sunday 8⃣ Dec in #Toronto and Tuesday 🔟 Dec in #Ottawa - 3 chances to meet the 🇸🇰 author Ivan Lesay and learn about his book "Topography of Pain".

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"Home And The World In Slovak Writing", a pionieering work mapping the pathways of Slovak literature into English coming out in spring 2025 from @McGillQueensUP

Podoby milosti/Forms of Grace, a new bilingual Slovak-English collection of poetry by Peter Milčák, translated by John Minahane, just out from Modrý Peter (Levoča) and Fooliar Press (Toronto) tinyurl.com/4h54nxzs

The latest Slovak book in English is Ivan Lesay's debut novel "The Topography of Pain", translated by Jonathan Gresty and published by Guernica Editions. shorturl.at/bIeoY

"Making Skeletons Dance" by Peter Macsovszky (trans. John Minahane), out in December, will be third addition to @seagullbooks' Slovak list this year, following Katarína Kucbelová's "The Bonnet" and Dušan Mitana's "On the Threshold"(due out in November) seagullbooks.org/making-skeleto…

A thorough and perceptive review of Ján Rozner's "Seven Days To the Funeral" (in German) in Zwischengrenzen by Renata Sako Hoess