Lit in Translation

Milan Zelinka

Born 1942 · Slovakia

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Anasoft litera 2013 · Finalist

    Pristaš

    Milan Zelinka · 70 when first published

    Novella · 159 pages · Coming of age

    AI-generated summary:Štefo Relich, born in the western Slovak village of Šúr, now a grown man with a family in a village in eastern Slovakia, looks back on his childhood and youth.

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    Anasoft litera 2008 · Winner

    Teta Anula

    Title translated by AI:“Aunt Anula”

    Milan Zelinka · 65 when first published

    Novella · 103 pages · Family, Coming of age, War

    AI-generated summary:A fourteen-year-old boy in a village near Trnava in western Slovakia watches his Aunt Anula, a hard-working, devout village healer who keeps two goats and tries to hold the family together through the war and post-war years.

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    Anasoft litera 2006 · Finalist

    Príbehy z Karpát

    Title translated by AI:“Tales from the Carpathians”

    Milan Zelinka · 63 when first published

    Short stories · 111 pages · Satire

    AI-generated summary:Fourteen short stories about ordinary people in the countryside, set in various periods up to the present, full of everyday envy and compassion, apparent rudeness, a little absurdity and spontaneous humour; in one, brothers fall out over a word.