Born 1941 · Slovakia
Anasoft litera 2019 · Finalist
Pavel Vilikovský · 77 when first published
Novella · 283 pages
AI-generated summary:A mosaic of stories large and small, lived and observed, funny and sad, arranged not in order of time but placed one by one like stones in a mosaic.
Anasoft litera 2018 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Beautiful Engine Driver, the Cruel Duchess”
Pavel Vilikovský · 76 when first published
Novel · 182 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:The love story of Ivan, a young advertising agency worker, turns out to be a novel by a nameless Slovak writer, and Ivan slips out of his creator's hands to lead a life of his own.
Anasoft litera 2015 · Finalist
Letmý sneh
Pavel Vilikovský · 73 when first published
Novella · 160 pages
AI-generated summary:A narrator, not all of whose words can be trusted, tries to ask the age-old questions of life in his own way, as his experiences put them on his tongue, whistling to keep up his courage in a dark forest.
Anasoft litera 2014 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“First and Last Love”
Pavel Vilikovský · 72 when first published
Novella · 196 pages
AI-generated summary:Two novellas: a successful photographer doubts the value of his work in a fast-changing world, and a pensioner doing volunteer work confronts the dramatic fates the twentieth century dealt out.
Anasoft litera 2011 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Dog on the Road”
Pavel Vilikovský · 69 when first published
Novel · 155 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Iks Ypsilon, a retired publishing editor, follows in the footsteps of Thomas Bernhard and, recalling his own part in literary life, takes a merciless look at Slovak society and its relationship to its own literature.
Anasoft litera 2010 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“The Autobiography of Evil”
Pavel Vilikovský · 68 when first published
Novel · 301 pages · Historical, Politics
AI-generated summary:In the early 1950s, Czechoslovak state security lure an émigré from a small Austrian village into Vienna's Soviet zone and blackmail him into informing on his friends in Bratislava; decades later a retired teacher studies Goebbels's diaries in search of evil.
Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist
Title translated by AI:“Silver Polishing”
Pavel Vilikovský · 65 when first published
Novella · 103 pages · Coming of age, Historical
AI-generated summary:Before the First World War, Andreas Pohl, son of a Viennese privy councillor, is moved from his Vienna grammar school to one in Pressburg, and his diary records two months of schoolboy confusion and longing in the coronation town.
Anasoft litera 2006 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“The Magic Parrot and Other Kitsch”
Pavel Vilikovský · 64 when first published
Short stories · 127 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Eight stories, mostly an author's memories of socialism, that play with kitsch and the popular genres of crime, horror and fantasy, in which characters reminisce about a past that may never have been as they remember it.