Lit_cast Slovakia #23: Ivana Hostová

In LIT_cast Slovakia 23 literature scholar Ivana Hostová talks to Julia Sherwood about the agendas that drive translations of Slovak poetry into English and why quantity does not necessarily translate into quality, and why publishing poetry in translation is challenging even in a translation-dominated culture such as Slovakia. She also introduces Nóra Ružičková, one of the first Slovak experimental poets, as well as the subversive poetry of Peter Macsovszky.

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Ivana Hostová

              Identity and Translation Trouble, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017

Nóra Ružičková

Nóra Ružičková with Marianna Mlynarčíková

• Ivana Hostová’s article in Studi Slavistici XVI, 2019, 1: 49-65: Fissuring into Existence. The Visceral Scrulptural and Textile-Textual in the Poetry of Maggie O‘Sullivan and Nóra Ružičková
• Anna Daučíková’s introduction to Nóra Ružičková’s and Marianna Mlynarčíková’s work Ceci n'est pas de la bryndza, shown at Contemporary Art Futura in Prague, 2017-2018
• Phallomonographical Tower, a performance by Marianna Mlynarčíková and Nóra Ružičková
• ABC, texts by Marianna Mlynarčíková and Nóra Ružičková

Selected poetry by Nóra Ružičková in English translation

• Ars Poetica, trans. Zuzana Starovecká
• LyrikLine, trans. Zuzana Starovecká
• Work and Intimacy. Fragments, trans. Ivana Hostová, in: International English Language Quarterly, Vol. 4, No 2, 276-28

Peter Macsovszky

Sarcangelium, a poetry collection

Santa Panica, a poetry collection, excerpt trans. John Minahan

Making Skeletons Dance, a novel excerpt from on the Asymptote blog, trans. John Minahane

Ivan Štrpka

     John Minahane on translating Ivan Štrpka

Mila Haugová

Eternal Traffic

Scent of the Unseen

One Hundred Years of Slovak literature. An anthology edited by Stanislava Repar (out of print but available in a number of university libraries)