Her most recent collection of short stories, Čisté zviera (A Pure Animal), appeared in 2018. For example, on the night of the circus opening, the narrator retells the events from. The narrator is all knowing and can be in many places at once. She has published the short story collections, Neverné ženy neznášajú vajíčka (Unfaithful Women Lay No Eggs, 2002) and Travesty šou (Travesty Show, 2004), and two novels, Žena zo sekáča (The Second-hand Woman 2008) and Krasojazdkyňa (The Equestrienne, originally published in Slovak in 2013 and in English by Parthian in 2016) was shortlisted for Slovakia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Anasoft Litera Award, and received the Bibliotéka Prize for 2013. The Night Circus is recounted from the point of view of an omniscient, third-person narrator, which means that the narrator has access to the thoughts and emotions of all the novels characters. She was born in 1969 in Košice, eastern Slovakia and currently lives in the capital, Bratislava. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Uršuľa Kovalyk is a poet, fiction writer, playwright and social worker. Seemingly quotidian routines and unremarkable lives are pierced by Kovalyk’s precise, sensual prose, to reveal the magic lurking just beneath the surface of the daily skin of existence. Women love, and lose, strange creatures they find by the garden gate dream dogs are liberated from the icy prison of a fridge bathrooms bloom into rainforests that souls can lose themselves in forever. He lay in the grass, clutching a piece of dirty plastic in his tiny baby hands.īlending the naturalistic and the fabulistic, these elusive, delicate stories fold fable and fairy tale into the everyday, domestic settings of kitchen, garden, car. I found him one morning when I went to take out the rubbish.
‘.riotous, funny and painful’ - European Literature Network on Kovalyk
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