In 2019, she received the Pavel Orságh Hviezdoslav Award for foreign translators who have been actively translating Slovak books into a foreign language for a long…
Glen James Brown writes about Uršuľa Kovalyk's books The Night Circus and Other Stories and The Equestrienne in his review The Style of Uršuľa Kovalyk,…
Since April 2020 Julia Sherwood has interviewed nearly thirty guests for Lit_Cast Slovakia. In today’s final – and slightly longer, 30th episode Peter Michalík,…
In LIT_cast Slovakia 29 deputy director of Karolinum Press Martin Janeček talks to Julia Sherwood about bringing Czech books to foreign audiences, being undeterred…
In LIT_cast 28 translator and journalist Tomáš Hučko talks to Julia Sherwood about what made him co-found the monthly Kapitál, about championing socially…
In episode 27 of LIT_cast Slovakia the writer, artist, editor and DIY enthusiast Monika Kompaníková talks to Julia Sherwood about the universal appeal of her novel…
In Lit_cast Slovakia 26 translator Tünde Mészáros talks to Julia Sherwood about growing up bilingually in Bratislava and raising multilingual daughters in…
In Lit_cast Slovakia #25 David Short, scholar and translator from Czech and Slovak, talks to Julia Sherwood about some of the staggering number of books he has…
In LIT_cast Slovakia 24, literature scholar, translator and one-time rock band member Peter Petro admits to being baffled by the mysterious link between Slavonic…
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…
In Lit_cast Slovakia #22 Hungarian literary organiser Éva Karádi talks to Julia Sherwood about championing European and, specifically, Slovak literature and which…
Uršula Kovalyk has made Calvert Journal's 100 of the best books from Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia available in English as the only Slovak author. The…