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	<title>Salon &#187; Michal Hvorecký</title>
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		<title>How to improve the teaching of literature?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 19:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Slovak Centre for Education Methodology, the institution in charge of developing school curricula, has asked for my views on teaching literature at secondary schools. Having visited scores of gymnasiums and other types of schools across the country over the past few years, I expressed my views openly and critically. Surprisingly enough, the Centre&#8217;s staff agreed with everything I said &#8211; changes in the way language and literature are being taught Slovakia are proceeding too slowly or not at all. Here are my suggestions on how to change this state of affairs: 1. Stop the orthodox emphasis on (mostly) outdated [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Transylvania on a slippery slope</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 06:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slovak jingoists can be very vocal when it suits them but for some reason, you don&#8217;t hear them protesting against the abolishing of Slovak tuition at universities abroad. As a result of budget cuts at the Slovak Ministry of Education, thirteen universities abroad will be losing their Slovak lectors. In France, for example, where until recently it was possible to study Slovak language and literature to degree level at three universities, this option will not be available for much longer. This is another absurd austerity measure, which will result primarily in a further drop in the number of literary and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Kafka vs Mills&amp;Boon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran a two-day writing course for teachers at a Slovak university in the Vrátna Valley in September 2010. By January 2011 I was still waiting to receive my €216 fee (including travel costs and the per diem). Since the workshop was funded by the European Union, I had to sign three forms on the spot. I thought that had taken care of the bureaucracy and was looking forward to future cooperation. A few weeks later the organizers wrote to say they urgently needed my Europass CV. As I had no idea what that was, they provided me with a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is My Country?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British writer William Boyd has recently praised Daniela Kapitáňová&#8217;s novel Samko Tále&#8217;s Cemetery Book in the Guardian.  I was delighted and rather proud to learn that this was the book he chose out of the plethora of publications on the British market. Translations of our fiction are quite rare, and that is why the work done by the translator, Julia Sherwood, the daughter of Agneša and Ján Kalina, famous émigrés and natives of Prešov [in eastern Slovakia], deserves to be spotlighted. What made my joy even greater was the fact that I have recently enjoyed reading Boyd&#8217;s thriller Restless. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A Small Country in a Big Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few years I have often found it embarrassing to say I hailed from Slovakia. Long gone was the charm offensive my country had launched at the start of the new century. The extreme right-wing Slovak National Party (SNS), a proud member of the ruling coalition led by the Social Democrat Prime Minister Robert Fico had fanned the hatred of the Hungarian minority, causing serious damage to the country&#8217;s relations with its southern neighbour. A rekindling of ethnic conflict and a resulting destabilization at its centre is what Europe least needs. Ján Slota, the SNS leader, referred to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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