Name Svetlana Zuchova | Role Writer | |
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Awards European Union Prize for Literature | ||
Anasoft litera 2007 svetlana uchov
Svetlana Žuchová (born 1976) is a Slovakian writer and translator. She was educated at Vienna University and Comenius University in Bratislava. As a short story writer, she has twice won prizes in the Slovakian literary competition Poviedka. Her first collection of short stories Dulce de Leche appeared in 2003 and won the Ivan Krasko Prize. She has published three novels since then: Yesim (2006), Zlodeji a svedkovia (Thieves and Witnesses, 2011), and Obrazy zo života M. (Scenes from the Life of M., 2013). All three have made the shortlist for Anasoft Litera, Slovakia's most prestigious literary prize. In 2015, Obrazy zo života M. won Zuchova the EU Prize for Literature.
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- Anasoft litera 2007 svetlana uchov
- Svetlana uchov o knihe jeffreyho eugenidesa hra o man elstv
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Žuchová's translations include works by Michel Faber, Sarah Kane, Sophie Kinsella and Sabine Thiesler. She lives and works in Prague.