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Stanislav Rakús

Born 1940 · Slovakia

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Books on prize lists

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    Anasoft litera 2022 · Winner

    Ľútostivosť

    Title translated by AI:“Compassion”

    Stanislav Rakús · 81 when first published

    Short stories · 155 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:Five stories of ordinary people living through illness, danger, loneliness and death, where old age meets youth and childhood and family ties stretch across the distance between western and eastern Slovakia.

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    Anasoft litera 2010 · Winner

    Telegram

    Stanislav Rakús · 69 when first published

    Short stories · 117 pages · Satire

    AI-generated summary:Four stories of intellectuals who never grew into their ambitions, among them a teacher with poetic aspirations humiliated by his headmaster, a failed poet, set in the second half of the twentieth century.