Monika Kompaníková
2007 Finalist, 2011 Winner
(1979) Považská Bystrica
Graduated in graphics (1998 – 2002) and painting (2002 – 2004) at the Academy of Fine Arts. She published her first short stories in literary magazines and anthologies, Poviedka 2001 and Poviedka 2003. She dedicates herself to various activities with societal and social focus, she collaborates externally with the Center for Philanthropy, with the Community Foundation Bratislava and with the Institute for Public Issues. In 2002 she debuted with collection of short stories Miesto pre samotu / A place for Loneliness, which received Ivan Krasko Prize. Novella Biele miesta / Blank Spaces was short-listed for Anasoft litera 2007 and published in Serbian translation. Anasoft litera 2011 winner Piata loď / The Fifth Ship is her first novel. She lives in Pezinok, has two kids.
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Piata loď / The Fifth Ship (2010)
The novel The Fifth Boat narrates a story of children who set up their little secret family in a garden house. It is a substitute family in a substitute home. Kompaníková succeeded in the test of long prose writing as a great storyteller. Her ambition is to fill the emptiness caused by solitude. |
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Biele miesta / Blank Spaces (2006) |
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