The Library has recently received through Mr. L. Wiener the second largest collection of books in the Slovak language in the world. Slovak is a dialect of Bohemian spoken by nearly two million and a ...

Two centuries after its scandal and censorship, Bajza’s René reaches readers worldwide — and still startles with its wit and ambition. “There have been many attempts to read Bajza’s novel to the end, ...

For literary translators, nothing is more challenging and yet perhaps more inspiring than texts shaped by humor, as they require a double translation: a linguistic as well as a cultural one. Global ...

A selection of short feel-good stories from Slovakia. Every week The Slovak Spectator brings you a selection of three short stories from across Slovakia from which pessimism and negativity are absent.

Writer and publisher Zdena Salivarova, who died of respiratory complications in Toronto’s Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital on Aug. 25 at the age of 91, became an iconic figure in Czech and Slovak ...

The Delegation of the European Union to India hosts Slovak writer Lukáš Cabala at a literary meet in Kolkata. Nominated for the 2025 European Union Prize for Literature, Lukáš is widely regarded as ...