Born 1968 · Slovakia
Anasoft litera 2025 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Grandpa Lužko”
Márius Kopcsay · 56 when first published
Novel · 522 pages · Family, Politics
AI-generated summary:A grandfather who spent his whole life in uniform, serving every 20th-century regime, and his grandson Karol, who grew up under normalization and early capitalism, are set side by side.
Anasoft litera 2015 · Finalist
Márius Kopcsay · 46 when first published
Short stories · 165 pages
AI-generated summary:A man in a midlife crisis, like all his peers with the same "diagnosis", measures the reality he is living through against his youth, in witty and ironic stories of the present day.
Anasoft litera 2010 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Bear Rock”
Márius Kopcsay · 41 when first published
Novella · 103 pages
AI-generated summary:When his wife loses her job and his own working life falls apart, a man named Kozma finds himself stuck on a rock face, where he takes stock of his past, present and future.
Anasoft litera 2009 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Mystifier”
Márius Kopcsay · 40 when first published
Novel · 319 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:A narrator who watches and a man who is watched, the native Kamil Váhal and the foreigner Mehony, pass through Slovakia's upheavals from the birth of the independent republic to the arrival of supermarkets, asking who controls their fate.
Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“A Useless Life”
Márius Kopcsay · 38 when first published
Short stories · 212 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Ten stories in which a man of around forty tries to live as a decent citizen, parent and wage earner amid the chaos of Slovak society at the dawn of capitalism, and everything tells him he is useless.
Anasoft litera 2006 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Home”
Márius Kopcsay · 37 when first published
Novel · 220 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:In late-1990s Bratislava, before mobile phones and supermarkets, Mucha, a hack journalist who cannot pay his debts, moves with his wife and small son from a sunny housing-estate flat to a gloomy one in the centre, and things only get worse.