“Sales leaders” or “prize-winning books”: tastes and preferences of the Slovak reader
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The book market in Slovakia is very rich and diverse; it presents works of various genres themes, aimed at readers with a variety tastes. article discusses approaches to the evaluation literary products, on one hand, from point view reading public, and, other members juries number prizes awarded annually country. largest Slovak publishing houses bookstores conduct monitoring, constantly updating their data best-selling books. Among bestsellers are, as rule, popular genres, including detective stories, women’s novels, political thrillers, novels elements mysticism. Other criteria are put forward by jury prestigious competitions, first all, Anasoft Litera Award for best original prose work language. In more detail, books winners recent years. These Ondrej Štefánik (the novel “I am Paula”, 2016), Ivan Medeši collection short stories “Eating”, 2018), Jana Sabuchová “Whisperers”, 2019). Etela Farkašová’s “The Script” (2017), due its high artistic merits humanistic orientation, was great success both critics readers.
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عنوان ژورنال: Slavânskij al?manah
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2073-5731']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31168/2073-5731.2021.1-2.4.04