Every year, France, Japan, Brazil and more crown their best book. Spin the globe to see which ones you can read in English, and which are still waiting.
4,667 books · 44 prizes · 39 countries
Anasoft litera 2026 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Shy House”
Barbora Hrínová · 41 when first published
Novel · 243 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Ambróz, an ageing, kindly double-bass player who teaches piano, a husband, father, collector of poems and dog lover, seems out of step with a fast age hungry for change, but proves a master of ordinary life.
Anasoft litera 2026 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Other Thoughts”
Ivana Dobrakovová · 43 when first published
Short stories · 176 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:A girl in her first relationship, a mother and a daughter tormenting each other with food, an expat forbidden to talk to Italians, a mistress, a teacher and a psychiatrist, all unsettled by thoughts they would rather not have.
Anasoft litera 2026 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Situation Desolation”
Maroš Krajňak · 53 when first published
Novel · 123 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Three people from the Slovak countryside set off on an eccentric Himalayan expedition to the summit of Imja Tse, and the journey brings back key, often traumatic events from their pasts.
Anasoft litera 2026 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Last Things”
Slavka Liptáková · 48 when first published
Novel · 287 pages
AI-generated summary:When Zita first sees the statue of the Annunciation on the facade of Reims Cathedral, she does not know that something has entered her life that she will seek ever more urgently as she nears death.
Anasoft litera 2026 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Half Lives”
Susanne Gregor · 44 when first published
Novel · 192 pages · Migration, Family
AI-generated summary:Klara, a Viennese woman, has died in a fall while hiking, and only Paulína was with her: the Slovak carer Klara hired for her mother after a stroke, whose own children are left with their grandmother in Slovakia.
Anasoft litera 2025 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“56, I Suppose”
Alexandra Salmela · 41 when first published
Novel · 197 pages · Autofiction, Satire
AI-generated summary:As New Year's fireworks go off, a heartbroken woman sits in a broken-down train; through a miserable year of perhaps 56 weeks, with a virus closing borders, each week is told by a different woman.
Anasoft litera 2025 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Stealthily”
Alta Vášová · 85 when first published
Short stories · 150 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Short reflective prose pieces in which a writer's notes and records of what she has lived and thought bridge her own life and the political and social climate of the present day.
Anasoft litera 2025 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Grandpa Lužko”
Márius Kopcsay · 56 when first published
Novel · 522 pages · Family, Politics
AI-generated summary:A grandfather who spent his whole life in uniform, serving every 20th-century regime, and his grandson Karol, who grew up under normalization and early capitalism, are set side by side.
Anasoft litera 2025 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Peacock, Cripple & Chairman”
Martin Hlavatý · 45 when first published
Short stories · 65 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Eight linked stories of life in a present-day village at the end of the world in eastern Slovakia, where the old drinking pals Julo, Slavo and Ignác and other colourful locals live amid dreams, love and spit.
Anasoft litera 2025 · Finalist
Peter Macsovszky · 58 when first published
Short stories · 247 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Experimental stories, closer to novellas or miniature novels, that draw on technical writing and texts by musicians, artists and outsiders, and return to how Bratislava and Slovakia have changed over recent decades.
Anasoft litera 2024 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Grandma©”
Ivana Gibová · 38 when first published
Novel · 132 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:On a housing estate in a small town in eastern Slovakia in the 1990s, Magda grows up with an alcoholic father, a gentle mother and a domineering grandmother; years later, at a funeral, she looks back.
Anasoft litera 2024 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Children in the Rain”
Dušan Dušek · 77 when first published
Short stories · 273 pages
AI-generated summary:A calendar of the recent past in notes, small prose pieces, memories and poems, recording the years of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine and pleading that we protect our children.
Anasoft litera 2024 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Long Live the Academy, Farewell Chekhov”
Novel · 190 pages · Satire, Politics
AI-generated summary:At a university, students rebel against the regime while the rector bends the law to stay in power and the vice-rector wavers between his wife and an actress cast as Chekhov's wife, until war breaks out in Ukraine.
Anasoft litera 2024 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Blue-Blindness”
Katarína Kucbelová · 44 when first published
Novel · 214 pages · Family, Nature
AI-generated summary:Characters trapped in prisons of their own making escape to animals and to art, in a novel about motherhood, home and the urge to leave it, ageing and dying, and the freedom of the nonconformist artist.
Anasoft litera 2024 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Second Black Notebook”
Richard Pupala · 51 when first published
Short stories · 268 pages · Speculative · Čierny zošit, book 2
AI-generated summary:Horror stories set among the tower blocks of Bratislava's Petržalka, in the Slovak countryside and in a dark forest on a summer night, each turning on a moment when something mysterious breaks into everyday reality.
Anasoft litera 2023 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“A Reason for Joy”
Soňa Uriková · 34 when first published
Short stories · 102 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Stories of parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren: adolescent girls, young women without clear prospects and doubting mothers who stray from the norm and look for their own worth, often back in the village.
Anasoft litera 2023 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“A House for a Stag”
Dominika Moravčíková · 30 when first published
Short stories · 177 pages · Family, Nature
AI-generated summary:Families in a mountain hamlet, at a sheep farm and in a house built for a stag fall under curses, secrets and quarrels over property, against the background of war or religious conflict.
Anasoft litera 2023 · Finalist
Jakub Juhász · 32 when first published
Novel · 239 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Leaving the hills for the plains of southern Slovakia and his home town, a writer sets out to write a biography of the Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi and follows the legend through the region's places.
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 2023 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Little Foxes Like It Warm”
Veronika Šikulová · 55 when first published
Short stories · 126 pages · Nature
AI-generated summary:Thirteen stories conceived as arias of an opera: personal pieces about a writer's days, nature and words give way to the lives of very different people, from a village woman speaking dialect to tenants of a housing block.
Anasoft litera 2022 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Compassion”
Stanislav Rakús · 81 when first published
Short stories · 155 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Five stories of ordinary people living through illness, danger, loneliness and death, where old age meets youth and childhood and family ties stretch across the distance between western and eastern Slovakia.
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
Title translated by AI:“The Vilkos”
Ivan Medeši · 39 when first published
Short stories · 235 pages · Satire, Speculative
AI-generated summary:In Ruski Krstur, a village in Serbian Vojvodina, two men who get nowhere, one waiting passively in a car repair shop, the other juggling two half-time jobs, face a dystopian world of tireless, emancipated women.
Anasoft litera 2022 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Six Strangers”
Marek Vadas · 50 when first published
Short stories · 122 pages · Historical, Crime
AI-generated summary:In 1928, in a small village in western Slovakia, respectable citizens lynch six of their Roma neighbours in one night; linked stories look at the pogrom through the eyes of victims, witnesses and perpetrators.
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 2021 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Departures”
Alta Vášová · 80 when first published
Short stories · 160 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:In fragmentary notes, an ageing woman writer records the ever faster passing of time, from her most intimate experiences to the mood of the era and its social tensions, holding on to family, friends and memory.
Anasoft litera 2021 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Good-for-Nothing”
Jana Juráňová · 63 when first published
Novel · 250 pages
AI-generated summary:After the death of her closest friend, Ľudmila, an invisible woman of eighty who belongs nowhere, loses her home and drifts to the margins as a journalist, a former politician, a doctor and a celebrity cross her path.
Anasoft litera 2021 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Women and Men, Animals”
Richard Pupala · 48 when first published
Short stories · 173 pages
AI-generated summary:Thirteen stories of people who are lonely in their own ways, in broken or failing relationships or carrying old traumas, from a teenage girl growing up on a housing estate to ageing men and women.
Anasoft litera 2021 · Finalist
Veronika Šikulová · 53 when first published
Novel · 278 pages · Autofiction, Family
AI-generated summary:A woman writer's loose, musical account of her days at home and in the garden and her trips to work, woven together with memories of family and of the dead, and with thoughts on music, words and writing.
Anasoft litera 2020 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The Whisperers”
Alena Sabuchová · 30 when first published
Novel · 192 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:In Podlasie, the misty borderland between Poland and Belarus, Dorota, the local gravedigger's daughter, grows up among faith, poverty and the šeptuchy, women healers, as her best friend tells the story.
Anasoft litera 2020 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Skin”
Jana Bodnárová · 69 when first published
Novella · 158 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:A young woman painter becomes obsessed with the German Expressionist Paula Modersohn-Becker and her fight for artistic and personal freedom, in a story set between 1900 and 1933, often in Berlin.
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 2020 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Your Room”
Michaela Rosová · 35 when first published
Novella · 138 pages · Love, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Written in the second person, a young Bratislava editor at a new left-wing magazine records her ordered, solitary life and her attempt to get over a love affair with the man she calls only 'the management'.
Anasoft litera 2020 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Last Imperial and Royal Baroness”
Silvester Lavrík · 55 when first published
Novel · 456 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:A documentary novel about Margita Czóbelová, painter and niece of Ladislav Mednyánszky, and the upheavals that hit her family and its manor house at Strážky in Spiš through the 20th century.
Anasoft litera 2019 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Eating”
Ivan Medeši · 36 when first published
Short stories · 220 pages
AI-generated summary:Six courses of stories from present-day Vojvodina, steeped in rough Balkan grotesque and Central European naturalism, about the animal within us, full of lust, hunger and fear.
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 2019 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Bell”
Juraj Bindzár · 75 when first published
Novel · 269 pages
AI-generated summary:In a village on the Slovak-Moravian border, Catholics, Lutherans, Jews and Moravian Brethren live in harmony until the voice of a church bell, the voice of God, enters their lives.
Anasoft litera 2019 · Finalist
Milo Janáč · 43 when first published
Novella · 198 pages
AI-generated summary:The village pub, the beating heart of every Slovak community and its true cultural centre, seen from behind, and sometimes beneath, the bar counter.
Anasoft litera 2019 · Finalist
Pavel Vilikovský · 77 when first published
Novella · 283 pages
AI-generated summary:A mosaic of stories large and small, lived and observed, funny and sad, arranged not in order of time but placed one by one like stones in a mosaic.
Anasoft litera 2018 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Screenplay”
Etela Farkašová · 74 when first published
Novel · 347 pages
AI-generated summary:A married couple, a literary translator and a natural scientist, come to terms with growing old.
Anasoft litera 2018 · Finalist
Daniel Majling · 37 when first published
Short stories · 118 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:A mock anthology of the cheap knock-offs of Russian classics, by Dostojevzski, Tolsztoi or Toorgenef, that villagers in remote parts of southern Slovakia keep on their shelves.
Anasoft litera 2018 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Flashback”
Mária Modrovich · 40 when first published
Short stories · 119 pages
AI-generated summary:Ten texts tell the stories of one woman, or one story of several women, confronted with both the pettiness and the immensity of the world.
Anasoft litera 2018 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Beautiful Engine Driver, the Cruel Duchess”
Pavel Vilikovský · 76 when first published
Novel · 182 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:The love story of Ivan, a young advertising agency worker, turns out to be a novel by a nameless Slovak writer, and Ivan slips out of his creator's hands to lead a life of his own.
Anasoft litera 2018 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Man from the Pit and the Children of Love”
Vanda Rozenbergová · 46 when first published
Novel · 214 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:"Everything is on me," says a young man of twenty-five who wants to provide for a family without a mother, look after his sister, bring up his brother and take care of the one who lives in the pit.
Anasoft litera 2017 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“I Am Paula”
Ondrej Štefánik · 38 when first published
Novel · 259 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:A family drama of the present day, bound by invisible threads to the whole of society, that asks who we are, who we have become and who we could have been.
Anasoft litera 2017 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Lily of the Valley”
Denisa Fulmeková · 49 when first published
Novel · 130 pages · Historical, Love, War
AI-generated summary:Vali Reiszová, a Jewish girl from Malacky, becomes the mother of a child by the Franciscan friar and celebrated poet Rudolf Dilong during the Holocaust, and escapes deportation thanks to him.
Anasoft litera 2017 · Finalist
Ivana Gibová · 31 when first published
Novella · 221 pages
AI-generated summary:Barbora searches for beauty, listens to opera arias and longs for catharsis, while her grandmother feeds the birds and Sylvia lives in seeming moral squalor with a big heart.
Anasoft litera 2017 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“New Year's Climb up Jasenina”
Jakub Juhás · 26 when first published
Novella · 92 pages · Nature
AI-generated summary:A topographical map of untold stories from a hungry valley in southern Slovakia, observed and overheard from hunting stands and lookout towers in late autumn and early winter.
Anasoft litera 2017 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Rift”
Jozef Karika · 38 when first published
Novel · 364 pages · Speculative
AI-generated summary:After the author publishes a thriller, a man contacts him with a truly terrifying story, which leads into one of Slovakia's great mysteries: the unexplained disappearances in the Tribeč mountains.
Anasoft litera 2017 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Silently and Briefly”
Juraj Bindzár · 73 when first published
Novel · 245 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:The short life of the first Czechoslovak international chess grandmaster, a native of Pezinok, told through an unfulfilled dream and his bizarre, brief marriage to a much younger Moscow poet and actress.
Anasoft litera 2017 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Illiterate”
Michal Havran · 43 when first published
Novel · 332 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:Book warehouses and heroin, descendants of Balkan magicians and operators of magic mirrors draw the heroes from an old cemetery to St Petersburg on the trail of language and crime.
Anasoft litera 2017 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Sunday Chess with Tiso”
Silvester Lavrík · 52 when first published
Novel · 412 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:Anička, daughter of a communist in Bánovce, tells how the priest and later Slovak president Jozef Tiso came every Sunday to play chess with the town pharmacist and resist his barbs.
Anasoft litera 2017 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Rinaldo's Journey”
Víťo Staviarsky · 55 when first published
Novella · 157 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Rinaldo, a young Roma boy, sets off on a picturesque journey in search of family happiness, an adventure that also probes the life of the Roma community.
Anasoft litera 2017 · Finalist
Zuzana Cigánová · 69 when first published
Novel · 126 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A first glance and a first touch sweep away everything that made sense until then, as a familiar love triangle is seen through the eyes of each of the people in it.
Anasoft litera 2016 · Winner
Peter Macsovszky · 49 when first published
Novel · 276 pages
AI-generated summary:The everyday life of a South American city, its tropical colours, shapes, tastes and smells set against its inhabitants' stubborn struggle with the elements and the bureaucratic machine.
Anasoft litera 2016 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Socks Before Departure”
Dušan Dušek · 69 when first published
Short stories · 116 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Peering into the many waiting rooms of memory, a writer smuggles stories and recollections from his head onto paper, where they turn into photographs of memories.
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 2016 · Finalist
Jana Beňová · 41 when first published
Novel · 125 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:A woman, a man, a ghost and a leg, amid the Trabants East Germans abandoned in the streets of Budapest on their way west: a honeymoon each of the couple spends in a different place.
Anasoft litera 2016 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Pentcho: The Story of a Steamship”
Jaro Rihák · 64 when first published
Novel · 330 pages · Historical, War, Migration
AI-generated summary:In May 1940 the rusty river steamer Pentcho leaves Bratislava with four hundred passengers, young Jewish Zionists dreaming of a state in British Palestine, on a voyage down the Danube and across the seas.
Anasoft litera 2016 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Together”
Peter Šulej · 48 when first published
Novel · 236 pages · Love, Family
AI-generated summary:Daniel, a music journalist, presenter, composer and DJ, is caught in a complicated love affair with two women while escaping a nihilistic society into the world of art and music.
Anasoft litera 2016 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Feast”
Rút Lichnerová · 64 when first published
Novel · 190 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Ira and her children are marked by the past, Šarlota sees gods in her children, and Koronis falls for an entertainer at feasts, their intertwined fates flowing like ancient myths.
Anasoft litera 2016 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Freedom for Pheasants”
Vanda Rozenbergová · 44 when first published
Short stories · 197 pages
AI-generated summary:Stories with an eye for detail and the absurd, about tramps, women, children and dogs, people who do not set the table for lunch and drink their coffee without a saucer.
Anasoft litera 2016 · Finalist
Zuska Kepplová · 33 when first published
Novel · 253 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:A student of African literature returns to her small Slovak hometown and meets her family and childhood friends, among them a classmate with a Nazi eagle tattooed on his head.
Anasoft litera 2015 · Winner
Veronika Šikulová · 47 when first published
Novella · 198 pages · Family, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:In short sequences of life's moments, the narrator, "our heroine", describes the people around her and comes to terms with her mother's illness and death.
Anasoft litera 2015 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“List of Names”
Alta Vášová · 75 when first published
Short stories · 139 pages
AI-generated summary:Twenty-six micro-stories titled with the name and age of their central characters, arranged alphabetically like a telephone directory of people from early childhood to old age.
Anasoft litera 2015 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Hegemony”
Erik Šimšík · 27 when first published
Short stories · 119 pages
AI-generated summary:Three novellas about a person who both is and is not, trying to give meaning to his existence in inner and outer worlds, among ordinary people who are afraid, make mistakes and could be your neighbours.
Anasoft litera 2015 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“All the Way to Nirvana”
Ivan Kolenič · 49 when first published
Novel · 184 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:On the brink of failure, a man creates his own universe in which to avoid all misunderstandings, disappointments and pain, only for old quarrels, debt seizures, scandals and wounds to return.
Anasoft litera 2015 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“A Guide to Incomprehensibility”
Juraj Briškár · 50 when first published
Novel · 131 pages
AI-generated summary:With almost no plot, a single character and a minimum of events, the book offers its reader a kind of universal travel guide that sees all the more the less it has to live through.
Anasoft litera 2015 · Finalist
Márius Kopcsay · 46 when first published
Short stories · 165 pages
AI-generated summary:A man in a midlife crisis, like all his peers with the same "diagnosis", measures the reality he is living through against his youth, in witty and ironic stories of the present day.
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 2015 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Back Then in Lošonc”
Peter Balko · 26 when first published
Novel · 193 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:An eight-year-old boy in the town of Lučenec, Lošonc in Hungarian, recounts the ordinary but hugely important things of childhood, including his blood brotherhood with his best friend Kápia.
Anasoft litera 2015 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“... and Don't Forget the Swans!”
Peter Juščák · 61 when first published
Novel · 399 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:Based on real events, the story of Irena Kalaschová, one of thousands taken from Czechoslovakia to Soviet labour camps, and of the other women held in the camps of Kolyma after the war.
Anasoft litera 2015 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Visits”
Richard Pupala · 42 when first published
Short stories · 189 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Short stories and sketches about children and parents, sons and daughters, wives and husbands, grandparents and grandchildren, in which every story told is a kind of visit.
Anasoft litera 2014 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“First and Last Love”
Pavel Vilikovský · 72 when first published
Novella · 196 pages
AI-generated summary:Two novellas: a successful photographer doubts the value of his work in a fast-changing world, and a pensioner doing volunteer work confronts the dramatic fates the twentieth century dealt out.
Anasoft litera 2014 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Melon Always Laughs”
Dušan Dušek · 67 when first published
Novel · 382 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Linked stories of the writer Adam and his wife Škorica, a doctor, each growing out of the last like branches from a single trunk.
Anasoft litera 2014 · Finalist
Ivana Dobrakovová · 31 when first published
Short stories · 188 pages · Migration
AI-generated summary:Young Slovak women look for their place abroad and in relationships with foreigners, later discovering the joys and burdens of motherhood and mixed feelings towards other mothers.
Anasoft litera 2014 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Unfinished Business”
Jana Juráňová · 56 when first published
Novel · 148 pages
AI-generated summary:Through the story of a young woman in an old portrait, a narrator delves into the lives of other women, Edita, Mačka, Soňa and Mariška, where fragments of the past mirror the present.
Anasoft litera 2014 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“That Kid Is Crazy”
Jaroslava Blažková · 80 when first published
Short stories · 135 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:The author recalls her early childhood, when a small, fragile, spirited girl pondered the wonders of the world she was discovering, its people, plants and animals.
Anasoft litera 2014 · Finalist
Short stories · 199 pages
AI-generated summary:In a village tucked beneath Sokol castle, the confusion of the new millennium washes up unsuspected historical connections, in a sequel to the stories of Považský Sokolec.
Anasoft litera 2014 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Information”
Maroš Krajňak · 41 when first published
Novel · 120 pages
AI-generated summary:Two men, one a cog in the world of modern "civilized" slavery, the other caught in endless trips to Germany, America and Ukraine, leave a world that strips them of illusions for the magic of the Florin monarchy.
Anasoft litera 2014 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Scenes from the Life of M.”
Svetlana Žuchová · 37 when first published
Novel · 146 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:After her mother's death Marisia returns from Vienna to Slovakia, works as a nurse and tries to fit into her partner's family, haunted by memories of her mother's dying.
Anasoft litera 2014 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Rascal”
Novella · 111 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Teenage Džimi and his good-for-nothing father deepen their relationship by testing who can take more, through escapades with swindlers and prostitutes.
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 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Black Shoes”
Víťo Staviarsky · 52 when first published
Novella · 173 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Among Roma market traders and settlement dwellers in eastern Slovakia, the dealer Ferdy receives the young and beautiful Sabina as payment of a debt, but she runs away from him.
Anasoft litera 2013 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Eye”
Balla · 45 when first published
Short stories · 99 pages
AI-generated summary:Three stories in which ordinary people, content with their everyday lives, suddenly find themselves in situations that seem absurd to them, though they could happen to anyone.
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
Title translated by AI:“Life Is Short”
Lucia Piussi · 41 when first published
Short stories
AI-generated summary:Stories set in real places, some familiar, some forgotten corners razed to the ground, peopled by artists, brawlers, pub poets, geniuses, madmen, prostitutes, saints and the damned.
Anasoft litera 2013 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Entropy”
Maroš Krajňak · 40 when first published
Novella · 144 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:A journey through time and space into the distinctive Rusyn and Lemko world, where bizarre, hallucinatory images probe the aftermath of twentieth-century events in Galicia.
Anasoft litera 2013 · Finalist
Milan Zelinka · 70 when first published
Novella · 159 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Štefo Relich, born in the western Slovak village of Šúr, now a grown man with a family in a village in eastern Slovakia, looks back on his childhood and youth.
Anasoft litera 2013 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Fingerless City”
Ondrej Štefánik · 34 when first published
Novel · 344 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:Edo, who guards his personal freedom and comfort and spends hours philosophizing in his armchair or in a Bratislava pub, becomes a suspect in a series of senseless murders and starts investigating himself.
Anasoft litera 2013 · Finalist
Pavel Taussig · 79 when first published
Novella · 180 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:In 1950s Bratislava, when it is easy to end up in prison, as her father has, eighteen-year-old Hana works as a courier at a publishing house of fiction.
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
Title translated by AI:“27, or Death Makes the Artist”
Alexandra Salmela · 30 when first published
Novel · 311 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:On her 27th birthday Angie panics: like her rock idols, she wants to become a famous artist and die young within the year. Stuck in Prague, she runs off to the Finnish countryside and moves in beside an eco-minded family.
Also: Finlandia 2010 shortlist
Anasoft litera 2012 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Without a Rainbow”
Juraj Bindzár · 68 when first published
Novel · 330 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:In a small town in western Slovakia, the life story unfolds of an odd, unlikeable man: a coward and a plebeian from the long line of adaptable servants and ruthless henchmen on whom his country has always rested.
Anasoft litera 2012 · Finalist
Maroš Krajňak · 39 when first published
Novella · 120 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:A young man returns from Bratislava to his native region in north-eastern Slovakia, the homeland of the Rusyns, and wanders through a borderland split between Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine, where the world of his ancestors is vanishing.
Anasoft litera 2012 · Finalist
Michaela Rosová · 27 when first published
Novella · 108 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:In present-day Berlin, a young woman who has left Britain and a four-year relationship falls for Ole, an eccentric Berliner in a red top hat, and is drawn into an intense but empty relationship.
Anasoft litera 2012 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Borderline Case”
Péter Hunčík · 57 when first published
Novel · 453 pages · Historical, War, Politics
AI-generated summary:In Šahy, a small town on the Slovak-Hungarian border, a stammering boy and his friends watch the twentieth century pass through: regimes, states and rulers keep changing while the town's Hungarians and Slovaks go on living their everyday lives.
Anasoft litera 2012 · Finalist
Silvester Lavrík · 47 when first published
Novel · 279 pages · Crime, Family
AI-generated summary:A body is found in the finest grand hotel in the Tatras. Behind it lies the story of Zu, a blind pianist, and her brother Pejo, who fight a developer for their family villa in Bratislava and spy on a mysterious new neighbour.
Anasoft litera 2012 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Thieves and Witnesses”
Svetlana Žuchová · 35 when first published
Novel · 195 pages · Migration
AI-generated summary:Four immigrants in Vienna struggle to find their footing in a new society; unable to gain security by honest means, they turn to theft, and their dreams of belonging collide with reality.
Anasoft litera 2012 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Places in the Net”
Veronika Šikulová · 44 when first published
Novel · 332 pages · Family, Historical, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Three women of one family, grandmother Jolana, her daughter Alica and granddaughter Verona, tell their lives in turn, as Verona tries to come to terms with her own sorrows and confusion and find her place.
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
Title translated by AI:“A Bare Sentence About Love”
Dušan Dušek · 64 when first published
Short stories · 157 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Three novellas set among filmmakers: a screenwriter and his beloved share a quiet intimacy, a pragmatic director's affairs mirror the script he is adapting, and a man of sixty losing his sight relives a past love through letters.
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
Title translated by AI:“Heavenly Loves”
Jana Juráňová · 53 when first published
Short stories · 240 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Thirteen short stories about love in its many forms: platonic, idyllic, everyday, tragic, comic, young, old, bulimic and political, told with irony and self-irony.
Anasoft litera 2011 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Crop Circles”
Jaroslav Rumpli · 39 when first published
Novel · 445 pages
AI-generated summary:A narrator who loves conjoined twin sisters Linda and Lujza escapes to a death-metal band's rehearsals and the pub, in a novel told in short segments about juggling, kidney failure, transplants and the search for truth.
Anasoft litera 2011 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Tales of Považský Sokolec”
Short stories · 205 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:In Považský Sokolec, a Slovak village in the early years of democracy, eccentric locals try out business and the novelties of civilisation, from smuggling frozen vegetables to farming mouflons and selling stones from the castle hill.
Anasoft litera 2011 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Dog on the Road”
Pavel Vilikovský · 69 when first published
Novel · 155 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Iks Ypsilon, a retired publishing editor, follows in the footsteps of Thomas Bernhard and, recalling his own part in literary life, takes a merciless look at Slovak society and its relationship to its own literature.
Anasoft litera 2011 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Twins and Antipodes”
Peter Krištúfek · 37 when first published
Novel · 206 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Adrián, a writer who produces commissioned biographies, is visited by a young prostitute who wants her life story told. Their recording sessions grow into a passionate, destructive affair that breaks up his family.
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 2011 · Finalist
Zuzana Mojžišová · 45 when first published
Novel · 96 pages · Love, Family
AI-generated summary:Johana, whose first serious decision as a child was choosing between her divorcing parents, finds great love, has three children and a happy home, until her husband decides to end their marriage.
Anasoft litera 2010 · Winner
Stanislav Rakús · 69 when first published
Short stories · 117 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Four stories of intellectuals who never grew into their ambitions, among them a teacher with poetic aspirations humiliated by his headmaster, a failed poet, set in the second half of the twentieth century.
Anasoft litera 2010 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Gubbio: A Book of Informers”
Dušan Šimko · 64 when first published
Short stories · 278 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:Six stories set in different periods and places in Europe, from Zurich, Basel and Vienna to Novi Sad, Prague and Košice, linked by one theme: informing, collaboration and betrayal.
Anasoft litera 2010 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The First Death in the Family”
Ivana Dobrakovová · 27 when first published
Short stories · 164 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Stories about intimate and family relationships, above all a daughter's difficult bond with her father, whose young heroine faces illness, death, mental disorders and fears of her own body.
Anasoft litera 2010 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Bad Actor”
Laco Kerata · 48 when first published
Novel · 140 pages
AI-generated summary:Timo, a third-rate dubbing actor in his forties, divorced and overshadowed by younger colleagues, gets by on bit parts in soap operas and action films, until a young woman praises his work and an American production calls.
Anasoft litera 2010 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Bear Rock”
Márius Kopcsay · 41 when first published
Novella · 103 pages
AI-generated summary:When his wife loses her job and his own working life falls apart, a man named Kozma finds himself stuck on a rock face, where he takes stock of his past, present and future.
Anasoft litera 2010 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Autobiography of Evil”
Pavel Vilikovský · 68 when first published
Novel · 301 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:In the early 1950s, Czechoslovak state security lure an émigré from a small Austrian village into Vienna's Soviet zone and blackmail him into informing on his friends in Bratislava; decades later a retired teacher studies Goebbels's diaries in search of evil.
Anasoft litera 2010 · Finalist
Peter Karpinský · 38 when first published
Short stories · 244 pages
AI-generated summary:Fifteen stories that begin in everyday settings, a block of flats, a hospital, a newspaper kiosk, a remote village, where strange things start to happen and characters reveal supernatural powers.
Anasoft litera 2010 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Záhorie Paradise”
Štefan Moravčík · 66 when first published
Short stories · 132 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:A parodic, erotic mythology of the Záhorie region of western Slovakia, in which the Slavic god Perún and his wife, nymphs and other deities create the land and its villages, told in the local dialect.
Anasoft litera 2010 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“A House in One Stroke”
Veronika Šikulová · 42 when first published
Short stories · 165 pages · Family, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Stories of childhood, growing up and what came after, told by a narrator who says that every character in the book is herself, and who, since her father's death, keeps searching for him in her house, garden and writing.
Anasoft litera 2010 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Sobering-Up Station”
Víťo Staviarsky · 49 when first published
Short stories · 82 pages
AI-generated summary:A would-be poet working as an orderly at a sobering-up station in an eastern Slovak town records the drunks, brawlers, social cases and police officers who pass through, and the human dramas they bring.
Anasoft litera 2009 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Islands of Oblivion”
Alta Vášová · 69 when first published
Short stories · 269 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Four loosely arranged, interlinked texts joined by a single autobiographical memory, and its gaps, in which recollection unfolds in the mind as a chain of perceptions, images, dreams, meditations and reflections.
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
Title translated by AI:“Almost Invisible”
Jana Bodnárová · 58 when first published
Nonfiction · 197 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A writer looks back on her own professional and private life in loosely flowing associations, small episodes and sketches of people close and strange to her, moving between memory, imagination and the act of writing about herself.
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
Title translated by AI:“Under the Sign of Shit”
Jaroslav Rumpli · 37 when first published
Novel · 358 pages
AI-generated summary:Three parallel lives 'from both sides of death': the narrator's own, from birth onward; that of Nula, a sceptic plodding through a predictable Slovak life; and that of Hombre, who was aborted before he could be born.
Anasoft litera 2009 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“When the Dog Laughs”
Juraj Šebesta · 44 when first published
Novel · 221 pages · Family, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Over one year, Tomáš, a gifted secondary-school student, copes with his parents' serious problems, clashes with his father and mother, school and first loves, helped by his humour and by Žofia, the family's foundling dachshund-like dog.
Anasoft litera 2009 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Mystifier”
Márius Kopcsay · 40 when first published
Novel · 319 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:A narrator who watches and a man who is watched, the native Kamil Váhal and the foreigner Mehony, pass through Slovakia's upheavals from the birth of the independent republic to the arrival of supermarkets, asking who controls their fate.
Anasoft litera 2009 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“You're Not One of Us, We'll Eat You”
Novel · 341 pages · Satire, Politics
AI-generated summary:In the young Slovak Republic, the secret services controlled by a despotic prime minister kidnap the president's son, setting off a farcical political thriller of kidnappings, rescues and intrigue.
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 2009 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Prompter”
Peter Krištúfek · 35 when first published
Novel · 246 pages · Satire, Politics
AI-generated summary:A theatre prompter goes into the service of a politician and, through his gift for whispering the right words, becomes the power behind the throne.
Anasoft litera 2008 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Aunt Anula”
Milan Zelinka · 65 when first published
Novella · 103 pages · Family, Coming of age, War
AI-generated summary:A fourteen-year-old boy in a village near Trnava in western Slovakia watches his Aunt Anula, a hard-working, devout village healer who keeps two goats and tries to hold the family together through the war and post-war years.
Anasoft litera 2008 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Love Goes Through the Stomach”
Inge Hrubaničová · 42 when first published
Short stories · 189 pages
AI-generated summary:Prose fragments and poems by a linguist and actress about love and above all about language, from strict standard Slovak to slang and vulgarity, full of allusions to literature, philosophy and linguistics.
Anasoft litera 2008 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Bratislava Upanishads”
Ján Litvák · 42 when first published
Short stories · 109 pages
AI-generated summary:Stories, but above all Zen Buddhist reflections, meditations and poems, by a Bratislava poet enchanted by India.
Anasoft litera 2008 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Cosmonauts' Square”
Viliam Klimáček · 49 when first published
Novel · 243 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Two childhood friends born around 1958, unemployed Maroš and Igor, who returns after years away, meet again in the small town of Veľké Roje, where the communist past mixes with the absurdities of the present.
Anasoft litera 2008 · Finalist
Víťo Staviarsky · 47 when first published
Novella · 75 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:In a Roma settlement in eastern Slovakia, a drummer who will tell any story for a few shots of borovička talks about his best friend Kivader, his wife Helenka and their son Rudko, whom his father forgets at a fair.
Anasoft litera 2008 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Film Stories”
Vladimír Havrilla · 64 when first published
Short stories · 83 pages
AI-generated summary:Short prose pieces of varying length that the author, a visual artist, wrote mostly as ideas for films over five decades, beginning with a story written at the age of eleven in 1954.
Anasoft litera 2008 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Champagne, Coffee, Beer”
Zuzana Cigánová · 60 when first published
Short stories · 101 pages · Love, Family
AI-generated summary:Three novellas, three love stories, set in three social settings, a luxury flat, an office and finally the street, where the unsettling story of one family unfolds.
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.
Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Cold Hands”
Dušan Dušek · 60 when first published
Novel · 174 pages · Family, Love
AI-generated summary:Teacher Pavol, nicknamed Paličko, cares for his ageing mother and recalls a childhood in 1950s Piešťany overshadowed by his brother's tragic death, before visiting Tamara, his childhood love, in America.
Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Intercessors”
Jana Juráňová · 49 when first published
Novella · 245 pages · Family, Politics
AI-generated summary:Four women of one family, divorced Ružena, her sister who has become a nun, their brother's wife and their mother, tell the family's story from four perspectives, which clash at a celebration of the late father's jubilee.
Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“A Useless Life”
Márius Kopcsay · 38 when first published
Short stories · 212 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Ten stories in which a man of around forty tries to live as a decent citizen, parent and wage earner amid the chaos of Slovak society at the dawn of capitalism, and everything tells him he is useless.
Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Blank Spots”
Monika Kompaníková · 27 when first published
Novella · 135 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Teenage siblings Tereza and Dávid have fled the dying settlement of Medovarky, where their mother was hidden away by a lover whose ambitions could not allow a child out of wedlock, and try to find their own identity.
Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Silver Polishing”
Pavel Vilikovský · 65 when first published
Novella · 103 pages · Coming of age, Historical
AI-generated summary:Before the First World War, Andreas Pohl, son of a Viennese privy councillor, is moved from his Vienna grammar school to one in Pressburg, and his diary records two months of schoolboy confusion and longing in the coronation town.
Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist
Robert Bielik · 43 when first published
Nonfiction · 212 pages
AI-generated summary:The notebook of a Slovak poet, priest and 'sad monk', written as introspective spiritual essays on his travels in Asia, with bitter memories of childhood and reflections on God, poetry, the priesthood, the Church and the nation.
Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist
Rút Lichnerová · 55 when first published
Novel · 128 pages · Historical, Love
AI-generated summary:In eighteenth-century Banská Štiavnica, Anna Regina, wife of the brilliant cartographer and engineer Samuel Mikovíni, struggles for her own place, her womanhood and the love of a husband consumed by science and imperial service.
Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Pen Drawing”
Silvester Lavrík · 42 when first published
Short stories · 133 pages
AI-generated summary:Fragmentary prose texts conceived like pen-and-ink drawings: portraits, cityscapes, genre scenes, illustrations, caricatures, jokes, comic strips and doodles in the margin.
Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist
Svetlana Žuchová · 30 when first published
Novella · 95 pages · Migration
AI-generated summary:A composer whose family emigrated from Izmir with all they owned in two leather bags, feels the need to talk and goes to a therapist; her monologue reveals a life spent fleeing from one situation and one place to the next.
Anasoft litera 2006 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The Magic Parrot and Other Kitsch”
Pavel Vilikovský · 64 when first published
Short stories · 127 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Eight stories, mostly an author's memories of socialism, that play with kitsch and the popular genres of crime, horror and fantasy, in which characters reminisce about a past that may never have been as they remember it.
Anasoft litera 2006 · Finalist
Balla · 38 when first published
Short stories · 132 pages
AI-generated summary:Stories in the author's characteristic manner, together with a range of micro-tales that fit on a single page, some of them close to aphorisms, with ironic and philosophical overtones.
Anasoft litera 2006 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Keep It in the Family!”
Daniela Kapitáňová · 49 when first published
Novel · 166 pages · Crime
AI-generated summary:A private television company is preparing a reality show about the Roháň family, and private detective Oto Župan and his assistant study the family's tangled history, until cast and crew are stranded on a small island off Crete.
Anasoft litera 2006 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Revelation”
Dušan Mitana · 59 when first published
Novel · 218 pages
AI-generated summary:Two men named Dušan, Jonáš and Eliáš, bear the biblical surnames of a prophet who fled his mission and a prophet who defied a king, in a novel conceived as one generation's testimony.
Anasoft litera 2006 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“It Happened”
Etela Farkašová · 62 when first published
Novella · 189 pages · Family, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A daughter keeps notes during the last days and months with her dying mother, and her account grows into a portrait of her mother's life and of the times and places in which it was lived.
Anasoft litera 2006 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Fog on Our Patience”
Ján Johanides · 71 when first published
Novella · 78 pages · Family, Politics, Crime
AI-generated summary:In the late 1960s an art student is jailed for twenty-five years for smuggling people across the border; in the 1990s the women of his family, scarred by the same regime, tell why some of them killed or were killed.
Anasoft litera 2006 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Happy Endings”
Jaroslava Blažková · 72 when first published
Short stories · 198 pages · Love, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:In thirteen letters to a friend, written between 2002 and 2005, a writer in her seventies records life while caring for her gravely ill husband, giving every ending a chance to become a happy one.
Anasoft litera 2006 · Finalist
Karol D. Horváth · 44 when first published
Short stories · 98 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Eleven humorous stories, from the opening 'Nemesis', a panopticon of characters who so badly want to change their fate that they perish when a mysterious woman crosses their path, to a Kafkaesque 'Metamorphosis'.
Anasoft litera 2006 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Home”
Márius Kopcsay · 37 when first published
Novel · 220 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:In late-1990s Bratislava, before mobile phones and supermarkets, Mucha, a hack journalist who cannot pay his debts, moves with his wife and small son from a sunny housing-estate flat to a gloomy one in the centre, and things only get worse.
Anasoft litera 2006 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Tales from the Carpathians”
Milan Zelinka · 63 when first published
Short stories · 111 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Fourteen short stories about ordinary people in the countryside, set in various periods up to the present, full of everyday envy and compassion, apparent rudeness, a little absurdity and spontaneous humour; in one, brothers fall out over a word.