A event on Tuesday 13th May. The event starts at 19:00.
Nicol Hochholczerová & Julia Sherwood will be in conversation on the new novella, This Room Is Impossible To Eat - join us to discover this unflinching and beautiful work, written by Nicol and translated from Slovak by Julia and Peter Sherwood.
This event will take place at Gloucester Road Books, BS7 8NU. Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7pm start on Tuesday 13th May.
ABOUT THIS ROOM IS IMPOSSIBLE TO EAT
You put your arms around me in front of my father.
Your daughter is very special.
12 50, 13 51, 14 52, 15 53, 16 54, 17 55, 18 57
Tereza and Ivan share secrets. Tereza is now in art school away from the town where she grew up. Ivan is a teacher and artist. Tereza is now nineteen, Ivan is fifty-seven. They have known each other for years.
Tereza shares her secrets with her friend Silvia. Ivan does not tell anyone. He constructs memories of Tereza to keep in his bed at night, covering them with sweat and tears.
In this minimalist, poetic novella with autobiographical elements Nicol Hochholczerová weaves a story of obsession and power and how both can lead to damage and separation. Rich with symbolism, its explosive themes – of eating disorders, abusive control and family dysfunction – are delicately handled with honesty and intelligence.
Nicol Hochholczerová’s first novel is a controversial best-seller. It has been awarded prizes and is being widely translated across Europe.
"Courageous... can be swallowed in one gulp" – Ivana Gibová
"A surreal imagination" – Peter FL Jílek
ABOUT NICOL HOCHHOLCZEROVÁ
Nicol Hochholczerová, who was born in 1999, grew up in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia. In 2024, she completed a Master’s in graphic design at the Academy of Art in Banská Bystrica. Her short stories have garnered prizes in a number of literary competitions. Her book-length debut, Táto izba sa nedá zjesť (This Room Is Impossible to Eat) was shortlisted for Slovakia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Anasoft Litera Award, and has since been translated into Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Serbian, Polish and Ukrainian, with German and Macedonian translations underway. A feature film based on the book is in production. In 2022, Hochholczerová was named Young Artist of the Year by the Tatra Banka Foundation. The Polish translation was nominated for the Angelus literary prize, awarded to living authors from Central Europe.
ABOUT JULIA SHERWOOD
JULIA SHERWOOD was born and grew up in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now the Slovak Republic). After studying English and Slavonic languages and literature in Cologne, London and Munich she settled in the UK. She spent more than 20 years working in the NGO sector, travelling widely in Central and Eastern Europe and the former USSR. From 2008 to 2014 she lived in North Carolina, and since 2008 has been working as a freelance translator from Slovak, Czech, Polish, Russian and German into English (with Peter Sherwood), as well as into Slovak. In addition to book-length publications, her work has appeared in Two Lines, BODY.Literature, The Missing Slate, Words Without Borders, OpenDemocracy, Eurozine, Aspen Review and salon.eu.sk. From 2013 to 2023 she was editor-at-large for Slovakia for Asymptote, the international online literary journal. She currently administers the group Slovak Literature in English Translation, co-curates the website SlovakLiterature.Com and curates the Slovak List for Seagull Books. In 2019 she was awarded the Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav prize for translating and promoting Slovak literature in the English-speaking world, and in 2023 she received Slovakia’s Minister of Culture’s award for her long-term work in translating and promoting Slovak literature. She lives in London.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
This event will take place at Gloucester Road Books, BS7 8NU. Doors open at 6:30pm for a 7pm start on Tuesday 13th May.
ABOUT THIS ROOM IS IMPOSSIBLE TO EAT
You put your arms around me in front of my father.
Your daughter is very special.
12 50, 13 51, 14 52, 15 53, 16 54, 17 55, 18 57
Tereza and Ivan share secrets. Tereza is now in art school away from the town where she grew up. Ivan is a teacher and artist. Tereza is now nineteen, Ivan is fifty-seven. They have known each other for years.
Tereza shares her secrets with her friend Silvia. Ivan does not tell anyone. He constructs memories of Tereza to keep in his bed at night, covering them with sweat and tears.
In this minimalist, poetic novella with autobiographical elements Nicol Hochholczerová weaves a story of obsession and power and how both can lead to damage and separation. Rich with symbolism, its explosive themes – of eating disorders, abusive control and family dysfunction – are delicately handled with honesty and intelligence.
Nicol Hochholczerová’s first novel is a controversial best-seller. It has been awarded prizes and is being widely translated across Europe.
"Courageous... can be swallowed in one gulp" – Ivana Gibová
"A surreal imagination" – Peter FL Jílek
ABOUT NICOL HOCHHOLCZEROVÁ
Nicol Hochholczerová, who was born in 1999, grew up in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia. In 2024, she completed a Master’s in graphic design at the Academy of Art in Banská Bystrica. Her short stories have garnered prizes in a number of literary competitions. Her book-length debut, Táto izba sa nedá zjesť (This Room Is Impossible to Eat) was shortlisted for Slovakia’s most prestigious literary prize, the Anasoft Litera Award, and has since been translated into Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Serbian, Polish and Ukrainian, with German and Macedonian translations underway. A feature film based on the book is in production. In 2022, Hochholczerová was named Young Artist of the Year by the Tatra Banka Foundation. The Polish translation was nominated for the Angelus literary prize, awarded to living authors from Central Europe.
ABOUT JULIA SHERWOOD
JULIA SHERWOOD was born and grew up in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now the Slovak Republic). After studying English and Slavonic languages and literature in Cologne, London and Munich she settled in the UK. She spent more than 20 years working in the NGO sector, travelling widely in Central and Eastern Europe and the former USSR. From 2008 to 2014 she lived in North Carolina, and since 2008 has been working as a freelance translator from Slovak, Czech, Polish, Russian and German into English (with Peter Sherwood), as well as into Slovak. In addition to book-length publications, her work has appeared in Two Lines, BODY.Literature, The Missing Slate, Words Without Borders, OpenDemocracy, Eurozine, Aspen Review and salon.eu.sk. From 2013 to 2023 she was editor-at-large for Slovakia for Asymptote, the international online literary journal. She currently administers the group Slovak Literature in English Translation, co-curates the website SlovakLiterature.Com and curates the Slovak List for Seagull Books. In 2019 she was awarded the Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav prize for translating and promoting Slovak literature in the English-speaking world, and in 2023 she received Slovakia’s Minister of Culture’s award for her long-term work in translating and promoting Slovak literature. She lives in London.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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