Lit in Translation

Balla

Born 1967 · Slovakia

In English
3 of 5

Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Anasoft litera 2022 · Finalist

    Among the Ruins

    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.

  • In English

    Anasoft litera 2016 · Finalist

    Big Love

    Veľká láska

    Balla · 48 when first published

    Novel · 143 pages · Love

    AI-generated summary:With black humour and piercing irony, a narrator tells of relationships between man and woman, parents and children, the individual and society.

  • No English yet

    Anasoft litera 2013 · Finalist

    Oko

    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.

  • In English

    Anasoft litera 2012 · Winner

    In the Name of the Father and Other Stories

    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.

  • No English yet

    Anasoft litera 2006 · Finalist

    De la Cruz

    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.