Vyhľadávanie
Ms. Sherwood is a well-known translator of contemporary Slovak literary fiction into English. Together with her husband, she has translated the prose works of outstanding Slovak authors Daniela Kapitáňová, Jana Juráňová, Petr Krištúfek, Balla, Ursula Kovalyk, Pavel Vilikovský, Ivana Dobrakovová, Jan Johanides, Marek Vadas and several books for children.
In 2019, she received the Pavel Orságh Hviezdoslav Award for foreign translators who have been actively translating Slovak books into a foreign language for a long time.
There is no doubt that Júlia Sherwood is the most active promoter of Slovak literature in the English-speaking world. She contacts publishers, seeks and supports new translators and coordinates information about literary events in Slovakia.
From 2013 to 2023, she was an editor-at-large with the international literary magazine Asymptote, presenting excerpts from the works of Slovak authors in English translations and informing about literary events in Slovakia.
She is the founder and administrator of the Facebook group Slovak-Literature-in-English-Translation, where she informs about news in the field of translation of Slovak literature into English.
In collaboration with translator Magdalena Mullek, she compiled the anthology of contemporary Slovak literature Into the Spotlight, published in 2017. In autumn 2019, she organized a festival of Slovak literature and art in the UK under the headline 'Raising the Velvet Curtain', which included a tour of three authors, a conference on contemporary Slovak literature, and two theatre performances and a discussion organized in collaboration with the Czech Centre in London.
In 2019, Ms. Sherwood has launched the information portal SlovakLiterature.com, which she runs jointly with Magdalena Mullek.
