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 Usadenina have been translated into German, English, Serbian, Hindi. The second book Bordeline (2014) became a model for the Stoka Theater 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 the age of 35. The text translated into Czech under the name Barbora, buch a katarze (2018) was published by the publishing house Protimluv, in translation into German the publishing house Drava under the name Barbora, Himmelherrgott & Katharsis. Translations of parts of the book were published in magazines in Hungary and dramatized on the Slovenian radio. 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 last book Babička© (2023) is nominated for the Anasoft litera award, a translation into Czech and Italian is being prepared.