Inge Hrubaničová

Studied Slovak language and literature – history at the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Prešov. Since 1988 she lives in Bratislava. She worked as lexicographer in the Philological Institute of Ľudovít Štúr at the Slovak Academy of Sciences (she’s coauthor of Synonymický slovník slovenčiny / A dictionary of synonymical terms of the Slovak language, 1995). She dedicates herself to linguistic revisions of the texts, newspaper and radio journalism. In SME daily she has a column called Slovenčina od slova do slova / Slovak language Word by Word. Since 1991 she has continuously devoted to creation of author theatre (previously in Stoka Theatre, now in SkRAT Theatre). Her theatre texts were published in the collective books Divadlo Stoka: Eo ipso, Komora, Kolaps / Stoka Theatre: Eo ipso, Chamber, Collapse (1997); Divadlo SkRAT. Hry 2003 – 2006 / SkRAT Theatre. Plays 2003 – 2006 (2007). She debuted separately with the book Láska ide cez žalúďok / Love Runs through the Abdomen (the typographical mistake is on purpose in the Slovak original). The book was nominated for a prize Anasoft litera 2008 and Bibliotéka 2008.