Lit in Translation

Jana Bodnárová

Born 1950 · Slovakia

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Anasoft litera 2023 · Finalist

    Patchwork in White

    Patchwork v bielej

    Jana Bodnárová · 72 when first published

    Novella · 92 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:Fragments of the lives of people bound together in close relationships in Czechoslovakia in the second half of the 20th century, seen through the memories of Ota, a bohemian, doctor, lover and mother, and her husband Andrej.

  • No English yet

    Anasoft litera 2020 · Finalist

    Koža

    Title translated by AI:“Skin”

    Jana Bodnárová · 69 when first published

    Novella · 158 pages · Historical

    AI-generated summary:A young woman painter becomes obsessed with the German Expressionist Paula Modersohn-Becker and her fight for artistic and personal freedom, in a story set between 1900 and 1933, often in Berlin.

  • No English yet

    Anasoft litera 2009 · Finalist

    Takmer neviditeľná

    Title translated by AI:“Almost Invisible”

    Jana Bodnárová · 58 when first published

    Nonfiction · 197 pages · Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:A writer looks back on her own professional and private life in loosely flowing associations, small episodes and sketches of people close and strange to her, moving between memory, imagination and the act of writing about herself.