Lit in Translation

Veronika Šikulová

Born 1967 · Slovakia

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Books on prize lists

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    Anasoft litera 2023 · Finalist

    Líštičky majú rady teplo

    Title translated by AI:“Little Foxes Like It Warm”

    Veronika Šikulová · 55 when first published

    Short stories · 126 pages · Nature

    AI-generated summary:Thirteen stories conceived as arias of an opera: personal pieces about a writer's days, nature and words give way to the lives of very different people, from a village woman speaking dialect to tenants of a housing block.

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    Anasoft litera 2021 · Finalist

    Tremolo ostinato

    Veronika Šikulová · 53 when first published

    Novel · 278 pages · Autofiction, Family

    AI-generated summary:A woman writer's loose, musical account of her days at home and in the garden and her trips to work, woven together with memories of family and of the dead, and with thoughts on music, words and writing.

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    Anasoft litera 2015 · Winner

    Medzerový plod

    Veronika Šikulová · 47 when first published

    Novella · 198 pages · Family, Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:In short sequences of life's moments, the narrator, "our heroine", describes the people around her and comes to terms with her mother's illness and death.

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    Anasoft litera 2012 · Finalist

    Miesta v sieti

    Title translated by AI:“Places in the Net”

    Veronika Šikulová · 44 when first published

    Novel · 332 pages · Family, Historical, Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:Three women of one family, grandmother Jolana, her daughter Alica and granddaughter Verona, tell their lives in turn, as Verona tries to come to terms with her own sorrows and confusion and find her place.

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    Anasoft litera 2010 · Finalist

    Domček jedným ťahom

    Title translated by AI:“A House in One Stroke”

    Veronika Šikulová · 42 when first published

    Short stories · 165 pages · Family, Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:Stories of childhood, growing up and what came after, told by a narrator who says that every character in the book is herself, and who, since her father's death, keeps searching for him in her house, garden and writing.