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, Tá to izba sa nedá zjest (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. PETER SHERWOOD studied Hungarian and linguistics in the University of London before being appointed, in 1972, to a lectureship in Hungarian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (now part of University College London). He taught there until 2007. From 2008 until his retirement in 2014 he was Lá szló Birinyi, Sr., Distinguished Professor of Hungarian Language and Culture in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Peter Sherwood received the Pro Cultura Hungarica prize of the Hungarian Republic for contributions to Anglo-Hungarian relations in 2001, the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic in 2007, the Já nos Lotz medal of the International Association for Hungarian Studies in 2011, the Lá szló Orszá gh prize of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English in 2016, and the á rpá d Tó th Prize for Translation in 2020. He has reviewed regularly for The Times Literary Supplement (London) as well as the e-journal Hungarian Cultural Studies (Pittsburgh) and other scholarly journals. In addition to book-length publications, he has translated from a wide range of genres, including shorter prose which has appeared online in Asymptote, Words Without Borders, The Missing Slate and BODYLiterature. He lives in London. 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 Orszá gh 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.