Lit in Translation

Jana Beňová

Born 1974 · Slovakia

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Anasoft litera 2016 · Finalist

    HoneymOon

    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.

  • In English

    Anasoft litera 2013 · Finalist

    Away! Away!

    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.

  • In English

    Anasoft litera 2009 · Finalist

    Seeing People Off

    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.