Ivana Dobrakovová

Ivana Dobrakovová on Authors’ Reading Month 2018, Wrocław, Poland

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.

Dobrakovová lives in Turin where she is working on translating the Neapolitan novels of Elena Ferrante.