Jana JuranovaJana Jura ova is an acclaimed Slovak writer, playwright, essayist, translator and publisher. She graduated in English and Russian language and literature and then worked as literary advisor to the Trnava Theatre, later becoming an editor of the literry magazine Slovenske poh ady and freelance contributor to Radio Free Europe. In 1993 she co-founded the feminist educational and publishing project ASPEKT, which she still coordinates, as well as being one of the editors of ASPEKT publications, the Aspekt journal (1993-2004) and many books. She lives in Bratislava. Jura ova has written plays (a monodrama, Salome, 1989, and a play, Silver Bowls, Beautiful Vessels, 1997), children's books (She is just a Babe, 1999, Babette Goes Out Into the World, 2003, Bubbles, 2002, Witches from the New Village, 2006) as well as short stories (Menagerie, 1994). Her longer fiction includes the collection Nets (1996) as well as novels: the feminist detective story The Suffering of the Old Tomcat (2000, also in Hungarian in 2005) and Beadswomen (2006), which was nominated for the Anasoft Litera Award and received the Biblioteka award for women's fiction in 2006. My Life with Hviezdoslav (2008) was shortlisted for the 2009 Anasoft Litera Award for original Slovak fiction. Several of Jura ova's short stories have appeared in German, English, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, and Norwegian translations. Her novella Dressed in a Net was published in Austria in 2003 (Wieser Verlag). Jana Jura ova's translations from English include Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas, Gender Trouble by Judith Butler as well as books by Margaret Atwood and Jeanette Winterson. Read More Read Less