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Irena Brežná

Born 1950 · Slovakia, Switzerland

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Anasoft litera 2016 · Finalist

    The Thankless Foreigner

    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.