On Wednesday, March 8, 2017, the ten finalists of the 12th year of the Anasoft litera literary award were announced live on Rádio Devín. The judging panel was choosing out of historically the largest amount of automatically nominated titles. The books that got in truly surprised.
The professional panel was choosing out of 227 titles. It is the highest number of Slovak prosaic books the panel of the Anasoft litera prize has evaluated so far. Finally, the judging panel consisting of Veronika Rácová, Ivana Hostová, Ján Gavura, Michal Habaj and Pavel Matejovič selected the following ten titles in alphabetical order: Bindzár, Juraj: Silently and Shortly (Mlčky a krátko), Orman, 2016 Cigánová, Zuzana: Evol (Aksál), Vydavateľstvo Spolku slovenských spisovateľov, 2016 Fulmeková, Denisa: Lilly of the Valley (Konvália), Vydavateľstvo SLOVART, 2016 Gibová Ivana: Barbora, the God & Catharsis (Barabora, boch & katarzia), Marenčin PT, 2016 Havran, Michal: The Analphabet (Analfabet), Marenčin PT, 2016 Juhás, Jakub: The New Year’s Ascent on the Jasenina Hill (Novoročný výstup na Jaseninu), RUBATO, 2016 Karika, Jozef: The Rupture (Trhlina), Ikar, 2016 Lavrík, Silvester: Sunday’s Chess with Tiso (Nedeľné šachy s Tisom), Vydavateľstvo Dixit, 2016 Staviarsky, Viťo: The Journey of Rinaldo (Rinaldova cesta), Viťo Staviarsky, 2015 Štefánik, Ondrej: I, Paula (Som Paula), Vydavateľstvo TATRAN, 2016
“Despite the large number of books evaluated, the choice of the final ten was not a simple one whatsoever. When deciding, the quality of the text itself was of greater importance than the author’s name. Also, it turned out that a well-written genre literature can be more compelling than a not-so-well managed attempt for an artistic text, though with higher ambitions. The publishing of some books seemed to be hasty and they would need more precise authorial and editorial work,” the judging panel of Anasoft litera 2017 noted with regard to their selection of this year.
Out of the finalists of Anasoft litera, this year, half of the writers have been nominated for the first time, the other half consists of multiple finalists of the previous years and there is even one winner of the prize.
The professional panel was choosing out of 227 titles. It is the highest number of Slovak prosaic books the panel of the Anasoft litera prize has evaluated so far. Finally, the judging panel consisting of Veronika Rácová, Ivana Hostová, Ján Gavura, Michal Habaj and Pavel Matejovič selected the following ten titles in alphabetical order:
Bindzár, Juraj: Silently and Shortly (Mlčky a krátko), Orman, 2016
Cigánová, Zuzana: Evol (Aksál), Vydavateľstvo Spolku slovenských spisovateľov, 2016
Fulmeková, Denisa: Lilly of the Valley (Konvália), Vydavateľstvo SLOVART, 2016
Gibová Ivana: Barbora, the God & Catharsis (Barabora, boch & katarzia), Marenčin PT, 2016
Havran, Michal: The Analphabet (Analfabet), Marenčin PT, 2016
Juhás, Jakub: The New Year’s Ascent on the Jasenina Hill (Novoročný výstup na Jaseninu), RUBATO, 2016
Karika, Jozef: The Rupture (Trhlina), Ikar, 2016
Lavrík, Silvester: Sunday’s Chess with Tiso (Nedeľné šachy s Tisom), Vydavateľstvo Dixit, 2016
Staviarsky, Viťo: The Journey of Rinaldo (Rinaldova cesta), Viťo Staviarsky, 2015
Štefánik, Ondrej: I, Paula (Som Paula), Vydavateľstvo TATRAN, 2016
“Despite the large number of books evaluated, the choice of the final ten was not a simple one whatsoever. When deciding, the quality of the text itself was of greater importance than the author’s name. Also, it turned out that a well-written genre literature can be more compelling than a not-so-well managed attempt for an artistic text, though with higher ambitions. The publishing of some books seemed to be hasty and they would need more precise authorial and editorial work,” the judging panel of Anasoft litera 2017 noted with regard to their selection of this year.
Out of the finalists of Anasoft litera, this year, half of the writers have been nominated for the first time, the other half consists of multiple finalists of the previous years and there is even one winner of the prize.
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