Lit_cast Slovakia #18 with Ivana Taranenková

In the 18th and last instalment of Lit_Cast Slovakia of 2020, literature scholar Ivana Taranenková talks to Julia Sherwood about this year’s literary output, both by established and emerging Slovak writers and assesses the impact of the pandemic on the country‘s literary life and research. She introduces a forthcoming English-language publication that will offer insiders‘ and outsiders‘ look at contemporary Slovak literature, and tells why her favourite 19th century Slovak author is Martin Kukučín.

 

Background notes

Ivana Taranenková

Selected publications (in Slovak) 

Platforma pre literatúru a výskum (The Platform for Literature and Research)

Jana Juráňová  Naničhodnica (The Wretch)

              Also:  Ilona. My Life with the Bard (Žila som s Hviezdoslavom)

Jana Beňová: Flanérova košeľa (Flaneur’s Shirt)

              Also: Away! Away! (Preč! Preč!) trans. Janet Livingstone

              Seeing People Off (Plán odprevádzania) trans. Janet Livingstone

Richard PupalaŽeny aj muži, zvieratá (Women and Men, Animals)

              Also: „A Lion in the Forest“ („Lev v lese“) trans. Julia and Peter Sherwood

Vanda Rozenbergová: Spoločný nočný mier (Collective Night Peace)

              Also: „Icelanders“ („Islanďania“) trans. Julia and Peter Sherwood

Peter Macsovszky: Čínske kino (Chinese Cinema)
              Also: from Making Skeletons Dance (Mykať kostlivcami) trans. Bby John Minahane

Veronika ŠikulováTremolo Ostinato

Ivana Gibová: Eklektik bastard

Katarína KucbelováČepiec (The Bonnet)

Alena SabuchováŠeptuchy (The Whisperers)

Lukáš Cabala: Satori v Trenčíne (Satori in Trenčín)

Karol Kolbas:  Všetko alebo znič (All or Destroy)

Barbora Hrínová:  Jednorožce (Unicorns)

Dominika Moravčíková:  Deti Hamelnu (The Children of Hameln)

Štefan Strážay

Ivan Štrpka

     John Minahane on translating Ivan Štrpka

Eva Luka

Michal Habaj

Víťo Staviarsky  Kale topánky (Dirty Shoes), excerpt trans. Julia and Peter Sherwood

Ján RoznerSedem dní do pohrebu (Seven Days to the Funeral),

excerpt trans. Julia and Peter Sherwood

The Dedalus Book of Slovak Literature, ed. Peter Karpinský

Into the Spotlight. New writing from Slovakia, ed. Magdalena Mullek and Julia Sherwood