Advices

The authorial discussion with Ľudovít Petraško and Peter Karpinský will take place on April 29th 2010 at 5.00 p.m. in the Photo Gallery Nova on Hlavná Street 28 in Košice. The authors will present their latest literary works to public. Ľudovít Petraško will present his novel Bygone Times (Lanské snehy) on the line between fiction and reality observing the variability of the previous century by the form of period family chronicle and Peter Karpinský his short story book Antisumption (Nanebonevzatie). By his novel not only from Slovak environment, Petraško literally links to German tradition of "father novels" and Karpinský links to the best what in contemporary Slovak short story exists. Presentation of both authors is connected with autographs giving.

From 10th to 12th November 2008 Košice was the venue for the first edition of the Litteriada literary festival, this time presenting the contemporary Slovak, French and Polish literary scene. The Pectus Civic Association and Publishing House in cooperation with the Slovak Writers' Society and the Slovakian PEN Centre prepared multi-media presentations for the public of Slovak and foreign authors. The foreign guests on the French side were Laurence Tardieu and Philippe Claudel, while the Polish side was represented by such names as Wieslaw Zieliňski, Marta Šwiderska-Pelinko, Adam Decowski, Janina Ataman-Gasiewicz, Zbigniew Domino, Janusz Termer.

From 10th to 12th November 2008 Košice was the venue for the first edition of the Litteriada literary festival, this time presenting the contemporary Slovak, French and Polish literary scene. The Pectus Civic Association and Publishing House in cooperation with the Slovak Writers' Society and the Slovakian PEN Centre prepared multi-media presentations for the public of Slovak and foreign authors.