Born 1946 · Slovakia
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 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 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 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 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.