Svetlana Žuchová

Svetlana Žuchová (born December 1976) is a Slovak writer and translator. She has published a collection of short stories and three novels. Her first novel received the Ivan Krasko Prize. Her 2013 novel Obrazy zo života M. (Scenes from the Life of M.) won the EU Prize for Literature in 2015.

Life Žuchová is a Slovak writer and translator. She was born in Bratislava in December 1976, and her father Ivan Žuch is a psychiatrist and wrote literature, poems and essays. She was educated at Vienna University and Comenius University in Bratislava, studying medicine and psychology. She has published three novels since then: Yesim (2006), Zlodeji a svedkovia (Thieves and Witnesses, 2011), and Obrazy zo života M. (Scenes from the Life of M., 2013). All three have made the shortlist for Anasoft Litera, Slovakia's most prestigious literary prize. In 2015, Obrazy zo života M. won Zuchova the EU Prize for Literature. The novel has been translated into Italian with the title Marisia. Frammenti di una vita by Tiziana D'Amico for Mimesis. Žuchová writes about themes such as displaced people, immigrant communities, and bereavement.

Žuchová's translations include works by Michel Faber, Sarah Kane, Sophie Kinsella and Sabine Thiesler. She has worked in Prague and Munich, and is married to an American physicist.