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Julia Sherwoodová

Julia studied Slavonic and English studies at the universities of Cologne, Munich and London. London is also where she lives. Since 2010, she has been translating and promoting Slovak literature, and together with her husband Peter Sherwood, she has translated the works of many Slovak authors. She also translates from Czech and Polish into English and from English, Russian and Polish into Slovak. She edits The Slovak List for Seagull Books. She was a freelance editor of the Asymptote literary journal for ten years and hosted the podcast interviews LIT_CAST Slovakia for the Slovak Literary Centre between 2020–2021. She also promotes Slovak literature through presentations and on SlovakLiterature.com. 
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 Julia Sherwoodová

Guest program

Two memoirs of normalisation

Book World Prague 2024

19:00 - 19:50

Univerzita Karlova, Nakladatelství Karolinum

Czech, English

Two key works of the 1970s – Vaculík's A Czech Dreambook and Rozner's Seven Days to the Funeral. Two very different ways the authors dealt with being excluded...

Friday, 24. 5. 2024

Literární čtení a beseda s Irenou Douskovou, Dorou Kaprálovou a Dorou Čechovou a jejich maďarskými překladateli

Book World Prague 2024

17:00 - 17:50

Lisztův institut - Maďarské kulturní centrum Praha, Asociace spisovatelů

V rámci projektu MULIVILI - Vícejazyčná visegrádská literatura, který je mezinárodní cyklus akcí zaměřených na fenomén mnohojazyčnosti, jehož cílem je ukázat...

Sunday, 26. 5. 2024