Meet The Continental Literary Magazine at the BRaK Book Festival in Bratislava
The Continental Literary Magazine is a thematic quarterly English-language literary and public affairs journal. We aim to create a common platform that provides a space for Central and Eastern European literature to gather ground abroad, and to form a partnership with English literature.
We present Central European literature, culture, and traditions as they are edgy and classy, just like our motto.
Join authors Weronika Gogola (PL) and Silvester Lavrík (SK) for an overview of this new publication.
Silvester Lavrík (1964, Slovakia)
Lavrík is a fiction-writer, dramatist, theatre manager, publicist, commentator, and essayist. He was the artistic director of the Zlín Urban Theatre; afterwards, he became the director of the culture and arts-oriented Radio Devín. He tends to add a touch of fantasy to ordinary life events. By fusing senseless or irrational elements with the world of reality, he disturbs realistic proportions, while the absurdity highlights the characters’ loneliness and emotional emptiness.
Weronika Gogola (1988, Poland)
Gogola is a Polish writer and a translator from Slovak and Ukrainian. Her first book Po trochu (‘Little by Little’, 2017), which depicts her childhood in the small village of Olszyny in the Carpathian mountains, is composed of stories from real life that are usually told bit by bit, in snippets and fragments. She won the Conrad Award for a prose debut. For the past years, she has been based in Bratislava, her latest work Ufo nad Bratysławą (‘Ufo over Bratislava’, 2021) take place here too.