Born 1939 · Slovakia
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 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 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 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.