Lit in Translation

Silvester Lavrík

Born 1964 · Slovakia

In English
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Books on prize lists

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    Anasoft litera 2020 · Finalist

    Posledná k. & k. barónka

    Title translated by AI:“The Last Imperial and Royal Baroness”

    Silvester Lavrík · 55 when first published

    Novel · 456 pages · Historical

    AI-generated summary:A documentary novel about Margita Czóbelová, painter and niece of Ladislav Mednyánszky, and the upheavals that hit her family and its manor house at Strážky in Spiš through the 20th century.

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    Anasoft litera 2017 · Finalist

    Nedeľné šachy s Tisom

    Title translated by AI:“Sunday Chess with Tiso”

    Silvester Lavrík · 52 when first published

    Novel · 412 pages · Historical, Politics

    AI-generated summary:Anička, daughter of a communist in Bánovce, tells how the priest and later Slovak president Jozef Tiso came every Sunday to play chess with the town pharmacist and resist his barbs.

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    Anasoft litera 2012 · Finalist

    Zu

    Silvester Lavrík · 47 when first published

    Novel · 279 pages · Crime, Family

    AI-generated summary:A body is found in the finest grand hotel in the Tatras. Behind it lies the story of Zu, a blind pianist, and her brother Pejo, who fight a developer for their family villa in Bratislava and spy on a mysterious new neighbour.

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    Anasoft litera 2007 · Finalist

    Perokresba

    Title translated by AI:“Pen Drawing”

    Silvester Lavrík · 42 when first published

    Short stories · 133 pages

    AI-generated summary:Fragmentary prose texts conceived like pen-and-ink drawings: portraits, cityscapes, genre scenes, illustrations, caricatures, jokes, comic strips and doodles in the margin.