Ivana Gibová

Ivana Gibová graduated from the Department of Slovak Language and Literature at FF PU. She made her debut with the collection of short stories Usadenina (2013), which as a manuscript won the Debut 2011 competition and, after its publication, won the Debut of the Year. Some short stories from the book have been translated into German, English, Serbian, Hindi. Her second book Bordeline (2014) was staged by the Stoka Theater in Bratislava and the Nekroteatro Theater in Prague. In 2016, she published the book Barbora, boch & katarzia, which was nominated for the Anasoft litera 2017 award; won the René Anasoft high school letter and was nominated for the Ján Johanides Prize for the best prose book by an author under 35. The book was and publishhed in Czech (2018, Protimluv) and German (Drava). In 2020, the comics-short stories book Eklektik Bastard was published, which was nominated for the Anasoft litera award, won the Panta rhei awards and the Tatrabanka award. It was translated into Czech and published by Argo in 2022. Her most recent novel Babička© (2023) won the Anasoft Litera Award. Translations into various languages are underway.