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Víťo Staviarsky

Born 1960 · Slovakia

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Anasoft litera 2017 · Finalist

    Rinaldova cesta

    Title translated by AI:“Rinaldo's Journey”

    Víťo Staviarsky · 55 when first published

    Novella · 157 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:Rinaldo, a young Roma boy, sets off on a picturesque journey in search of family happiness, an adventure that also probes the life of the Roma community.

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    Anasoft litera 2013 · Winner

    Kale topanky

    Title translated by AI:“Black Shoes”

    Víťo Staviarsky · 52 when first published

    Novella · 173 pages · Love

    AI-generated summary:Among Roma market traders and settlement dwellers in eastern Slovakia, the dealer Ferdy receives the young and beautiful Sabina as payment of a debt, but she runs away from him.

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    Anasoft litera 2010 · Finalist

    Záchytka

    Title translated by AI:“The Sobering-Up Station”

    Víťo Staviarsky · 49 when first published

    Short stories · 82 pages

    AI-generated summary:A would-be poet working as an orderly at a sobering-up station in an eastern Slovak town records the drunks, brawlers, social cases and police officers who pass through, and the human dramas they bring.

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    Anasoft litera 2008 · Finalist

    Kivader

    Víťo Staviarsky · 47 when first published

    Novella · 75 pages · Family

    AI-generated summary:In a Roma settlement in eastern Slovakia, a drummer who will tell any story for a few shots of borovička talks about his best friend Kivader, his wife Helenka and their son Rudko, whom his father forgets at a fair.