Babička©

In the reading room we will welcome one of the most prominent characters of the contemporary Slovak literary scene, Ivana Gibová, a publisher and writer Peter Šulej. The literary evening will be dedicated not only to her book Babička ©, who won the Anasoft Litera 2024 Award, but also the story of the publishing wave/Drewo and heart. Childhood, adolescence, aging, broken knees, soaked slippers, neighbors, pubs, kindergartens and schools, small -town lives, Maria Callas and one grandmother. Magda grows up with his brother, his father's alcoholic, a pliable mother and a dominant grandmother. There are several difficult themes of family beams in the eye -catching story, but the book lacks humor, irony, cynicism. She won the René Anasoft Litera Award and was nominated for the Ján Johanides Award for the best prosaic book of the author under 35. Her short story comics Eklectik Bastard (2020) was nominated for the Anasoft Litera Award and won the Panta Rhei Awards and Tatrabanka Award. He has triggered the unprecedented interest of a broad reading community and became literally a literary anthem of the Y.


Peter Šuleja is the writer and founder of Drewo and Heart publishing house, editor -in -chief of the magazine about contemporary culture and art of wave. Its publishing brand publishes current domestic and foreign literary work. The publishing shot focuses on the publication of poetry and current titles of established authors of Slovak prose. All titles are characterized by content vitality, experiment and textual and graphic innovation. Translation literature regularly maps the world drama and prose. Over 25 years of its existence, it has been published under the Drewo and Heart brand in two hundred titles and publishing house has been a fixed position on the Slovak literary scene.

[1] https://kultura.sme.sk/c/2396314/anasoft-litera-vitera-ivana-gibova-kibnha-babicka.tml