Weronika
Gogola

Gogola (1988, Poland) is a Polish writer and a translator from Slovak and Ukrainian. Her first book Po trochu (‘Little by Little’, 2017), which depicts her childhood in the small village of Olszyny in the Carpathian mountains, is composed of stories from real life that are usually told bit by bit, in snippets and fragments. She won the Conrad Award for a prose debut. For the past years, she has been based in Bratislava, her latest work Ufo nad Bratysławą (‘Ufo over Bratislava’, 2021) take place here too.

Photograph © Renata Gogola

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Fiction
Dervish by Weronika Gogola

In this short story, like in a bad dream, we are plunged from daily life to wandering a strange town, hoping for a route back.