Lit_Cast Slovakia #18: Ivana Taranenková

In the 18th and last instalment of Lit_Cast Slovakia of 2020, literature scholar Ivana Taranenková talks to Julia Sherwood about this year’s literary output, both by established and emerging Slovak writers and assesses the impact of the pandemic on the country‘s literary life and research. She introduces a forthcoming English-language publication that will offer insiders‘ and outsiders‘ look at contemporary Slovak literature, and tells why her favourite 19th century Slovak author is Martin Kukučín.