Zuzana Mojžišová: Small Fragments of Reality

 – Slovakia

Zuzana Mojžišová (* 1965) graduated in screenwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, where she currently teaches at the Department of Film and TV Theory. She made her debut with the collection of short stories Afrodithé (LCA, 1997). Thirteen years later, she followed up her first work with the prose Bon voyage (Artforum, 2010), which was in top ten of the 2011 Anasoft Litera award. Her novella Genius loci (2013) is historical prose, primarily set in a psychiatric hospital in interwar Czechoslovakia. The book Modus vivendi (Artforum, 2019, again in the Anasoft Litera top ten) tells the story of three old women walking through a city destroyed by a disaster, practically deserted. She has also written several works for children: Dve-tri prasiatka (Two or Three Little Pigs, 2006), Rozprávky na sedem dní + Makarena (Fairy Tales for Seven Days + Macarena, 2012) and Havran v okne, Galandia a iné príhody (Raven in the Window, Galandia and Other Stories, 2021, Artforum), which is probably the first Slovakian gamebook intended for young readers.

She has also published a social travelogue, Za rómskym ľudom (For the Roma People, 2017), which is part of the ethnomusicological research Šilalo paňori (Cold Water). Her film reviews have been published in books under the title O ľuďoch a snoch (Of People and Dreams, 2016), and she is also the author of the filmological Premýšľania o filmových Rómoch (Thoughts on Roma People in Film, 2014). Her most recent collection of short stories is Kristus a iné miniatúry (Christ and Other Miniatures, 2024, Artforum).