Monika Šimkovičová

Information about the author in her own words:

"It may seem that I started to write just recently, but the truth is quite the opposite. I’ve been writing since my childhood. First it had been some poems but soon I realised that it’s not the right thing for me. My first poem, the one about the very first Czechoslovak cosmonaut, was literally understood by no one...

When I was 8 and I wrote Hands off from Vietnam, my teachers were​ bringing me to all the military bases around and I had to recite it...

So I gave up on poetry and started to write short stories instead. Some of them even made it into a real book. But that was just the beginning.

In 2015 I finished a novel called Roden24, which was published as an e-book in Slovak, Czech and English. And at the same time it was also published as an audiobook narrated by the leading Slovak actors.

And that was the time when when Roden started to grow up. It even vertook his older sister Aluni, which has been waiting last 5 years to be finished. The novel VIGIL was born."