The Dedalus Book of Slovak Literature offers a wide-ranging selection of fiction from the end of the nineteenth century until the present day, including work by Slovakia's classic and most important contemporary authors such as Rudolf Sloboda, Dominik Tatarka, Pavel Vilikovsky, Monika Kompanikova and Balla. This is the most important selection of Slovak fiction to have appeared in English and will be essential reading for anyone wanting to gain an idea of Slovak Literature.

Peter Karpinsky teaches at the University of Presov. He is a prize-winning author of both adult and children books and has written plays for both radio and television. He is the editor of 5x5, an anthology of contemporary Slovak Literature which was published in 2012.