Dedalus Book of Slovak Literature

'The Dedalus Book of Slovak Literature' offers a wide-ranging selection of fiction from the end of the nineteenth century until the present day, including work by Slovak's classic and most important contemporary authors such as Rudolf Sloboda, Dominik Tatarka, Opavel Vilikovsky, Monika Kompanikova and Balla. This is the most important selection of Slovak fiction to have appeared in English and will be essential reading for anyone wanting to gain an idea of Slovak Literature. AUTHOR: Peter Karpinsky teaches at the University of Presov. He is a prize-winning author of both adult and children books and has written plays for both radio and television. He is the editor of '5x5', an anthology of contemporary Slovak Literature which was published in 2012.

“"Being half Russian, I have naturally read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov, but only because of The Dedalus Book of Slovak Literature (Dedalus), edited by Peter Karpinsky, am I now learning a little about the maternal side of my heritage. Just murmuring the names of these authors -- Jozef Hronsky, Gejza Vamos, Rudolf Sloboda -- makes me feel I am back at a church picnic in Lorain, Ohio." -- Michael Dirda's Summer Reading in The Washington Post”

Peter Karpinsky teaches at the University of Presov. He is a prize-winning author of both adult and children books and has written plays for both radio and television. He is the editor of 5x5, an anthology of contemporary Slovak Literature which was published in 2012. Janet Livingstone was born in the USA at Brookline, Massachusetts but has lived in Slovakia for 14 years. She has been a translator since 2003 and specialises in film scripts. Her many translations include the novels the Best of All Works by Irena Brezna and Juliet and the Other One by Gabriela Revicka. Magdalena Mullek is a Slovak translator who has studied at the University of Indiana where she is currently completing her doctorate in Slavic Languages and Literatures.

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