Bodies of LITA

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General Assembly

General Assembly is the highest body of LITA.

It represents all members, decides on the most critical issues related to finance, approves the annual report and annual accounts, elects members of the Board of LITA – authors from the membership, etc. It meets annually.

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LITA Board

LITA Board is the control body of the organisation.

The LITA Board comprises nine figures from Slovak culture elected from and by LITA members. The Board is always assembled so that all artistic fields under LITA’s scope are proportionally represented.

LITA Board for the term of office 2024 – 2028:

Representatives of authors of literary works

For the authors of fiction: Dušan Dušek
For the authors of specialized literature: Veronika Rácová
For translators: Elena Flašková

Representatives of authors of audiovisual works

For directors: Eva Borušovičová, Vice-Chairwoman
For script-writers: Marek Leščák
For adapters of dialogues: Mirka Brezovská, Chairwoman

Representatives of authors of works of visual arts and photography

For authors of work of visual arts: Martin Kellenberger, Vice-Chairman
For photographers: Judita Csáderová

Representatives of authors ofdramatic and theatrical works

For authors of dramatic and theatrical works: Ondrej Šulaj

LITA Board Members

Mirka Brezovská

for authors of dubbing and dialogues, Chairwoman of the Board

Renowned translator, lyricist, music director, and author of dialogues of audiovisual works. Her portfolio includes countless foreign titles which she has translated into Slovak and foreign language versions of original Slovak works. She also deals with issues concerning audiovisual translation as a lecturer in creative workshops, contributes to professional publications, and participates in international conferences. She is a Slovak representative in the Association of European Audiovisual Translators (AVTE).

Eva Borušovičová

for film directors, Vice-Chairwoman of the Board

Film director, screenwriter and writer, she’s also a playwright and theatre director. She has been teaching at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts for several years. As a filmmaker she focuses mainly on fiction, she is the director and screenwriter of the films Blue Heaven (Modré z neba, 2001) and Truth or Dare (Vadí nevadí, 1997), director of the film Amálka, I’ll Go Mad (Amálka, ja sa zbláznim, 2000) and she also wrote the screenplay for the co-production feature film Jánošík – A True Story (Jánošík – Pravdivá história, 2009). She wrote the plays 69 Things Better than Sex (69 vecí lepších než sex, 2013), Štefánik – the Eclipsed Sun (Štefánik – slnko v zatmení, 2017), and Bunny (Zajačik, 2020), which she also directed. She has also written and directed radio plays, including Resurrection (Vzkriesenie, 2018), The Father of the Nation (Otec vlasti, 2019), Patriarchy (Patriarchát, 2020), All the People Will Be Brothers (Všetci ľudia budú bratia, 2021), and Sparse World (Riedky svet, 2023). She regularly publishes in print media and on the internet, for example the Author’s Page in the SME daily newspaper. She is the author of the books We’ll Do What We Can (Urobíme všetko, čo sa dá, 2009), Jánošík – A True Story (Jánošík – Pravdivá história, 2009), Into Swimwear (Do plaviek, 2018), Plans B (Plány B, 2021) and Perfect Child (Dokonalé dieťa, 2023).

Martin Kellenberger

for authors of works of fine art, Vice-Chairman of the Board

Academic painter and graphic artist, one of the leading illustrators of books for children and youth in Slovakia. His awards include The Most Beautiful Books of Slovakia and The Most Beautiful Children’s Book. He participates in professional contests as a jury member, and is also involved in the animated film and music industry. He received the Ľudovít Fulla Award (2001) for his lifelong illustration work, and was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award (2006) for children’s book creators. His work has been presented at numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Slovakia and abroad.

Dušan Dušek

for authors of fiction

As a prose writer, poet, author of literature for children and youth, radio plays and screenplays, he’s a leading Slovak writer. In 2016 he was awarded the 1st Class Pribina Cross, and in 2014 the Sun in a Net prize for Outstanding Contribution to Slovak Cinema. His recognitions for literature include the Ján Johanides Award (2012) for the book Simple Sentence about Love (Holá veta o láske) and the Dominik Tatarka Award (2000) for the book To Heaven Afoot (Pešo do neba). He received the Crystal Wing (2002) award for his major creative contribution to the film screenplay of Landscape (Krajinka, 2000) and his pedagogical activities – he taught at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts for a long time. He is also a member of the Slovak Film Institute Council. His latest book Children in the Rain (Deti v daždi, 2023) was in the finale of the Anasoft Litera award 2024. He received the Mayor’s Award from the mayor of Bratislava Matúš Vallo in 2023.

Veronika Rácová

for authors of non-fiction

Literary scholar and university teacher, Veronika Rácová focuses her literary criticism and reviewing activities mainly on contemporary poetry and prose. She graduated in mass media studies, and subsequently Slovak language, literature and aesthetics. She is interested in contemporary poetry, prose and issues of textual studies and editing. She authored a monograph on Ivan Štrpka’s work entitled On the Border of the Shell. On the Poetry of Ivan Štrpka (Na pomedzí škrupiny. O poézii Ivana Štrpku, 2015), co-authored the collective monograph The Search for the Present. Slovak Literature at the Beginning of the 21st Century (Hľadanie súčasnosti. Slovenská literatúra začiatku 21. storočia, 2014), and monograph Chapters from Slovak Textology. Ján Buzássy: Plane → Mountain plane (Kapitoly zo slovenskej textológie. Ján Buzássy: Pláň → Pláň hory, 2021) and many more scientific studies and expert papers. She currently teaches at the Department of Slovak Literature and Literary Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava.

Elena Flašková

for translators

The author of award-winning and popular translations of plays, prose, and art theory books from French has long taught literary translation at the Academy of Performing Arts. She has produced numerous translations of dramatic and prose works for book editions, as well as directly for professional theatres across Slovakia. These include works such as Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, more recent dramatic texts such as Joël Pommerat’s Reunification of the Two Koreas, The Father by Florian Zeller and Edmond by Alexis Michalik, as well as Patrice Pavis’s Dictionary of the Theatre, which she translated with the theatre scholar Soňa Šimková (2004), Florence Dupont’s Aristotle or the Vampire of Western Theatre (2016), and Milan Kundera’s novels The Festival of Insignificance (2020), Ignorance (2021) and Identity (2023). She is a recipient of the French state Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Marek Leščák

for screenwriters

The award-winning screenwriter has contributed to the most outstanding Slovak feature and documentary films of recent years. An important part of his portfolio is his collaboration with director Martin Šulík on films including The City of the Sun (Slnečný štát, 2006), Gypsy (Cigán, 2011), The Interpreter (Tlmočník, 2018), Man with Rabbit Ears (Muž so zajačími ušami, 2020), and most recently Horse (Kôň, 2022). Several of these films have won filmmaker awards, such as the Sun in a Net for best screenplay. Collaborations with directors Ivan Ostrochovský on Servants (Služobníci, 2020), Iveta Grófová on The Fifth Boat (Piata loď, 2017), and Juraj Lehotský on the documentary Blind Loves (Slepé lásky, 2008) were also awarded. The film Photophobia (Svetloplachosť, 2023) which he co-created with a directorial duo Ivan Ostrochovský and Pavol Pekarčík, has received, among others, the Europa Cinemas Label award at the IFF in Venice and was a Slovak national Oscar candidate. In addition to creative work, he also teaches at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts, and is a member of the Slovak Film and Television Academy.

Judita Csáderová

for photographers

Art photographer awarded Figure in Slovak Photography (2015) for her life’s work. Her other activities, such as organising art photography events and membership of professional juries, are also important. She is a founder of the foundation – subsequently civic association – FOTOFO, which organises the Month of Photography. She has also long been involved in pedagogical activities at the Josef Vydra School of Applied Arts, and also chairs the Association of Slovak Professional Photographers.

Ondrej Šulaj

for authors of dramatic and theatrical works

Director, screenwriter, dramaturgist and playwright who has won several prestigious awards. In addition to prizes for individual works, he was awarded the Sun in a Net prize for Outstanding Contribution to Slovak Cinematography (2019). He also received the Golden Camera Award (2014) for his life’s work. He is the author and co-author of screenplays for well-known Slovak films (Jozef Mak, The Helper (Pomocník), Everything I love (Všetko, čo mám rád), The Garden (Záhrada), Music (Muzika), etc.), and as a playwright and author of dramatizations, director, and dramaturgist has also participated in many successful theatrical productions (Ťapákovci, All for Nation (Všetko za národ), Farmer's Blood (Gazdova krv), etc.). He is a founder of the Slovak Film and Television Academy, and a long-term teacher at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (Bratislava).

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Director

The director represents LITA’s governing and statutory body, which governs the organisation’s employees. The director is elected by the LITA Board for a five-year period.

Jana Vozárová

She graduated from the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava. She became the director of LITA in 2018 for the first time, and was re-elected by the LITA Board in 2023. However, she has worked at LITA since 2001, where her work has touched upon areas such as copyright, international relations, and building an information system and online services for LITA’s communication with authors.

During her term as the director, she has streamlined LITA Fund’s functioning, intensified work on LITA information systems as well as the organisation’s external communications, and also started the New Year with Slovak Art project – original New Year’s greetings. Under her leadership, LITA achieved closer contact with authors, systematically publicising their problematic position and conditions for artistic creation. She also raises awareness about the importance of copyright law – in which LITA also actively participated in 2022, including a key demand regarding authors’ royalties in the Copyright Act Amendment.

In 2022, she became a board member of the international Society of Audiovisual Authors (SAA), which is an umbrella organisation for collective management organisations for audiovisual authors from Europe and deals with their strategic issues of legal protection.

Deputy Director

Lucia Miklasová

She graduated from the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava and Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne in Paris (LL.M.). She has been working at LITA since 2002 (except for 2008 – 2013 when she studied and worked in advocacy and private international law). At LITA she initially worked in the licencing department, focusing on licences for theatrical productions, before leading the newly-established visual art department and – upon returning to LITA – the entire licencing department. She also has extensive experience delivering LITA copyright workshops for authors and users of works. She became LITA’s Deputy Director in 2017.