Ivana Dobrakovová
Ivana Dobrakovová (born 1982) is a Slovak writer and translator. She was born in Bratislava and studied English and French translation and interpretation at Comenius University. Her first short story collection titled Prvá smrť v rodine appeared in 2009, followed by her debut novel Bellevue (2010). Her second collection of short stories titled Toxo appeared in 2013, followed by her fourth book Matky a kamionisti (2018). All four books were shortlisted for the Anasoft Litera Prize, and Matky a kamionisti also won the EU Prize for Literature.
![Ivana Dobrakovová on Authors’ Reading Month 2018, Wrocław, Poland](../I/Ivana_Dobrakovov%C3%A1_7116.jpg.webp)
Ivana Dobrakovová on Authors’ Reading Month 2018, Wrocław, Poland
Dobrakovová lives in Turin where she is working on translating the Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante.[1]
References
- "Bio". Archived from the original on 2021-11-05. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
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