Vadas mixes traditional African storytelling with darker existential stories. In his short stories filled with irony and absurdity, reality and fantasy exist next to each other. Vadas has won the Literary Fund Prize in 1994 for Malý román (A Short Novel), the Bibiana Prize 2004 for best children’s book for Rozprávky z čiernej Afriky (Stories from Dark Africa) and the Anasoft Litera Award 2007 for his collection of short stories Liečiteľ (The Healer). His children’s book Útek (Flight, 2016) has been translated into multiple languages.
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