Lit in Translation

Jana Juráňová

Born 1957 · Slovakia

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Anasoft litera 2021 · Finalist

    Naničhodnica

    Title translated by AI:“The Good-for-Nothing”

    Jana Juráňová · 63 when first published

    Novel · 250 pages

    AI-generated summary:After the death of her closest friend, Ľudmila, an invisible woman of eighty who belongs nowhere, loses her home and drifts to the margins as a journalist, a former politician, a doctor and a celebrity cross her path.

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    Anasoft litera 2014 · Finalist

    Nevybavená záležitosť

    Title translated by AI:“Unfinished Business”

    Jana Juráňová · 56 when first published

    Novel · 148 pages

    AI-generated summary:Through the story of a young woman in an old portrait, a narrator delves into the lives of other women, Edita, Mačka, Soňa and Mariška, where fragments of the past mirror the present.

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    Anasoft litera 2011 · Finalist

    Lásky nebeské

    Title translated by AI:“Heavenly Loves”

    Jana Juráňová · 53 when first published

    Short stories · 240 pages · Love

    AI-generated summary:Thirteen short stories about love in its many forms: platonic, idyllic, everyday, tragic, comic, young, old, bulimic and political, told with irony and self-irony.

  • In English

    Anasoft litera 2009 · Finalist

    Ilona. My Life with the Bard

    Žila som s Hviezdoslavom

    Jana Juráňová · 51 when first published

    Novella · 154 pages · Historical, Love

    AI-generated summary:Ilona Nováková, educated daughter of a wealthy family and widow of the great Slovak poet Hviezdoslav, looks back on her marriage and on the one role allowed to her, that of a poet's wife.

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    Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist

    Orodovnice

    Title translated by AI:“Intercessors”

    Jana Juráňová · 49 when first published

    Novella · 245 pages · Family, Politics

    AI-generated summary:Four women of one family, divorced Ružena, her sister who has become a nun, their brother's wife and their mother, tell the family's story from four perspectives, which clash at a celebration of the late father's jubilee.