{"id":2026,"date":"2025-10-27T11:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impactsummit.sk\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=2026"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:15:41","slug":"julia-sherwood","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/impactsummit.sk\/en\/speaker\/julia-sherwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Sherwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Julia Sherwood was born in Bratislava to writer and humorist <strong>J\u00e1n Kalina<\/strong> and journalist <strong>Agne\u0161a Kalinov\u00e1<\/strong>. After her family was forced to emigrate, she studied Slavic languages and English at universities in Cologne, Munich and London. She went on to work for more than twenty years at the headquarters of the human rights organization <strong>Amnesty International<\/strong>. Julia has long been based in London, where she focuses on literary translation. In addition to Slovak, she translates from Czech, Polish and Russian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She founded and runs the Facebook group <strong>Slovak Literature in English Translation<\/strong>, which shares news and updates about Slovak books available in English. She also curates <strong>The Slovak List<\/strong>, a series of Slovak titles published by the renowned <strong>Seagull Books<\/strong>. Together with <strong>Magdalena Mullek<\/strong>, she co-founded the website <strong>SlovakLiterature.com<\/strong> and co-edited <em>Into the Spotlight<\/em>, an anthology of contemporary Slovak writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong>2019<\/strong>, she received the <strong>Pavol Orsz\u00e1gh Hviezdoslav Prize<\/strong>, awarded to foreign translators who have made a long-term and significant contribution to bringing Slovak literature to international readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","rok":[20],"class_list":["post-2026","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","hentry","rok-20"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Julia Sherwood - Impact Summit Nad\u00e1cia Pontis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/impactsummit.sk\/en\/speaker\/julia-sherwood\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Julia Sherwood - Impact Summit Nad\u00e1cia Pontis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Julia Sherwood was born in Bratislava to writer and humorist J\u00e1n Kalina and journalist Agne\u0161a Kalinov\u00e1. 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