Jana Benová - Café Hyena

Bratislava village, 21st century. Elsa, who comes from a good family, moves in with her lover, Ian. Thanks to fate and a special scholarship, they can live carefree in their tiny housing estate apartment, where music and human speech ooze from the walls. Creatures live their strange lives behind and between the walls, which we would think are already extinct, and whose memory is fading. And the young people, being unable to dissolve in the cycle of consuming-digesting-emptying-re-consuming the directly available products, realize that interacting with other people care plays an important role in their lives, and now they continue their journey together knowing that either madness or death awaits them at the end

JANA BEŇOVÁ was born in 1974 in Slovakia. He studied at the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava, where he graduated as a dramatist. After his first book of poems, published in 1993, he published novels and short stories, and won the European Union's Literary Prize for his novel Café Hyena. He is an employee of the Theater Institute in Bratislava.

MÉSZÁROS TÜNDE (1970), translator, was born in Bratislava. He translates mainly contemporary prose from Slovak, Czech, English and German. He is a permanent employee of several magazines and translation workshops.