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4,667 books · 44 prizes · 39 countries
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Anasoft litera 2023 · Finalist
Patchwork v bielej
Jana Bodnárová · 72 when first published
Novella · 92 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Fragments of the lives of people bound together in close relationships in Czechoslovakia in the second half of the 20th century, seen through the memories of Ota, a bohemian, doctor, lover and mother, and her husband Andrej.
Anasoft litera 2022 · Finalist
Medzi ruinami
Balla · 54 when first published
Novel · 261 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:In a small town full of bizarre characters, Vargová, a patient with a miserable past and a worse present, writes letters to her psychiatrist Felešlegi, who drinks more than he treats and badly needs help himself.
Anasoft litera 2022 · Finalist
Táto izba sa nedá zjesť
Nicol Hochholczerová · 22 when first published
Novella · 151 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In poetic, often surreal sentences, small and inconspicuous events add up to the story of an adolescent girl's relationship with a much older man, which changes her life and her view of the world.
Anasoft litera 2021 · Winner
Jednorožce
Barbora Hrínová · 36 when first published
Short stories · 212 pages
AI-generated summary:Eight stories of mostly young women who do not fit the norm, looking for closeness and a place of their own in cafés, a village cottage, rented flats and a psychiatric ward, from Bratislava to Tbilisi.
Anasoft litera 2020 · Finalist
Čepiec
Katarína Kucbelová · 40 when first published
Novel · 224 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A woman spends two years visiting a remote, emptying mountain village beneath Kráľova hoľa to learn to sew the bonnet of the local women's costume from an elderly teacher, next to a Roma settlement.
Anasoft litera 2019 · Finalist
Matky a kamionisti
Ivana Dobrakovová · 36 when first published
Novel · 236 pages
AI-generated summary:The intertwined lives of four women, two Slovaks and two Italians, in Bratislava and Turin, and their relationships with mothers and with truck drivers, virtual, all too real or none at all.
Anasoft litera 2016 · Finalist
Die undankbare Fremde
Irena Brežná · 62 when first published
Novel · 160 pages · Migration, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A woman who fled Czechoslovakia for Switzerland in 1968 recalls settling into her new country, and, working as an interpreter, conveys the troubled lives of today's migrants.
Anasoft litera 2015 · Finalist
Letmý sneh
Pavel Vilikovský · 73 when first published
Novella · 160 pages
AI-generated summary:A narrator, not all of whose words can be trusted, tries to ask the age-old questions of life in his own way, as his experiences put them on his tongue, whistling to keep up his courage in a dark forest.
Anasoft litera 2014 · Finalist
Krasojazdkyňa
Uršuľa Kovalyk · 44 when first published
Novel · 118 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:Karolína, who does not know who her father is, grows up in a household of women with no men except visitors, where her grandma cooks, plays cards with the neighbours and criticizes her mother.
Anasoft litera 2013 · Finalist
Preč! Preč!
Jana Beňová · 38 when first published
Novel · 112 pages
AI-generated summary:Rosa, a forty-year-old "child of the main railway station" who feels closer to trains than to city buses, believes that a creative life is built on running away and on adventure.
Anasoft litera 2013 · Finalist
Dom hluchého
Peter Krištúfek · 39 when first published
Novel · 547 pages · Historical, Family
AI-generated summary:Alfonz Trnovský, a small-town doctor, spends his life keeping up the appearance of a happy, contented man while refusing to hear his own conscience as the twentieth century rolls past.
Anasoft litera 2013 · Finalist
Špaky v tŕní
Zuzana Cigánová · 65 when first published
Novella · 168 pages
AI-generated summary:A woman considered ugly, raising a child on her own, cannot live by great things, so she lives by small ones, while hard everyday reality blends with her daydreams and fantasies.
Anasoft litera 2012 · Winner
V mene otca
Balla · 44 when first published
Novella · 144 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:A retired man, father of two grown sons, tells his family's story after his youngest son decides to sell the house built by the narrator's mysterious brother, and searches for the reasons he failed as a father and husband.
Anasoft litera 2012 · Finalist
Buchty švabachom
Zuska Kepplová · 29 when first published
Short stories · 192 pages · Migration
AI-generated summary:Young Slovaks of the generation born around 1980 leave home to try their luck abroad, hoping for better pay, a chance to prove themselves and a more intense life, and find themselves searching for a place in a globalised Europe.
Anasoft litera 2011 · Winner
Piata loď
Monika Kompaníková · 31 when first published
Novel · 212 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Twelve-year-old Jarka, left to fend for herself by her very young mother on a Bratislava housing estate, takes a pram with six-month-old twins and hides them in a garden shed, where she and a runaway boy build a secret family.
Anasoft litera 2011 · Finalist
Bellevue
Ivana Dobrakovová · 28 when first published
Novel · 219 pages
AI-generated summary:Nineteen-year-old Blanka spends a summer as a volunteer at Bellevue, a centre for people with physical disabilities in Marseille, but her attempts to help and to connect give way to depression and growing paranoia.
Anasoft litera 2011 · Finalist
Mykať kostlivcami
Peter Macsovszky · 44 when first published
Novel · 385 pages
AI-generated summary:In an Amsterdam bar, Šimon Blef, an émigré from a small landlocked country in Europe, drinks, watches passers-by and writes down what he sees and imagines, in the hope of one day becoming a novelist.
Anasoft litera 2009 · Finalist
Plán odprevádzania
Jana Beňová · 34 when first published
Novel · 142 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Elza, a young writer, lives with her older partner Ian in Petržalka, Bratislava's vast housing estate, and the two escape its bleakness by spending their days with artist friends at Café Hyena in the old town.
Anasoft litera 2009 · Finalist
Žila som s Hviezdoslavom
Jana Juráňová · 51 when first published
Novella · 154 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:Ilona Nováková, educated daughter of a wealthy family and widow of the great Slovak poet Hviezdoslav, looks back on her marriage and on the one role allowed to her, that of a poet's wife.
Anasoft litera 2009 · Finalist
Stalo sa prvého septembra (alebo inokedy)
Pavol Rankov · 44 when first published
Novel · 267 pages · Historical, Love, War
AI-generated summary:On 1 September 1938, at the swimming pool in Levice, three thirteen-year-old friends decide to compete for the love of Mária, a contest that runs through thirty years of war, occupation and communism.
Anasoft litera 2007 · Winner
Liečiteľ
Marek Vadas · 35 when first published
Short stories · 150 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:Thirty-one stories set in equatorial Africa and inspired by tales the author gathered there, in which death waits in the corner of a bar, spirits talk with the living and healers, shamans and forest spirits cross between dream and reality.