Richard Pupala

Richard Pupala was born in August 1972. After graduation he studied journalism and art history at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava. Later he graduated in film and television dramaturgy and screenwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts. He debuted with the short-stories collection Visits (2014), and in 2017 he published a collection of ghost stories, The Black Notebook. In 2020, he published the book Women and Men, Animals, and most recently returned to ghost stories once again with the title The Second Black Notebook (2023). All four collections have been nominated for the Anasoft Litera Award. The second and third collections were nominated for the EU Prize for Literature. The author lives alternately in Bratislava's Petržalka and Kremnické Bane, and makes his living as a playwright and scriptwriter.