Monika Kompaníková

Books on prize lists

• Piata loď

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  Anasoft litera 2011 · ★ Winner

  Boat Number Five

  Piata loď

  Monika Kompaníková · 31 when first published

  Novel · 212 pages · Family, Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:Twelve-year-old Jarka, left to fend for herself by her very young mother on a Bratislava housing estate, takes a pram with six-month-old twins and hides them in a garden shed, where she and a runaway boy build a secret family.

• Biele miesta

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  Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist

  Biele miesta

  AITitle translated by AI:“Blank Spots”

  Monika Kompaníková · 27 when first published

  Novella · 135 pages · Family

  AIAI-generated summary:Teenage siblings Tereza and Dávid have fled the dying settlement of Medovarky, where their mother was hidden away by a lover whose ambitions could not allow a child out of wedlock, and try to find their own identity.