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Katarína Kucbelová

Born 1979 · Slovakia

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Books on prize lists

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    Anasoft litera 2024 · Finalist

    Modrosleposť

    Title translated by AI:“Blue-Blindness”

    Katarína Kucbelová · 44 when first published

    Novel · 214 pages · Family, Nature

    AI-generated summary:Characters trapped in prisons of their own making escape to animals and to art, in a novel about motherhood, home and the urge to leave it, ageing and dying, and the freedom of the nonconformist artist.

  • In English

    Anasoft litera 2020 · Finalist

    The Bonnet

    Čepiec

    Katarína Kucbelová · 40 when first published

    Novel · 224 pages · Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:A woman spends two years visiting a remote, emptying mountain village beneath Kráľova hoľa to learn to sew the bonnet of the local women's costume from an elderly teacher, next to a Roma settlement.