Believer in goodness – interview

November 30th,2012, Chandigarh Navleen Lakhi , Hindustan Times “All that I am is a good Christian, which means I am also a good Muslim, a good Hindu, a good Jew…” he pauses till his eyes are fixed on a man in turban. “I am also a good Sikh,” he continues, insisting that for God, it is not about religion but about being good or bad. Wednesday warmed up to many good turns in a conversation with Jozef Banas, Slovak novelist, journalist, diplomat and politician, who was in town for a meet-the-author and reading session of […]

Newspapers in India about Jozef Banas

 January 18th, 2013   Daily Bhaskar: I am looking for Jesus’ History in India: India will be present in Slovak writer’s Josef Banas book: On Wednesday evening Josef Banas reached Alliance Francaise, the French Cultural Centre at Chandigarh in Sector 36.  He read extrats from his Slovak novel “Zona Nadsenia”, and then extracts from the German and Hindi translations were also read.  Banas is presently working on his 10th book entitled “Code 1”, in which he is looking for the history of Jesus’ stay in India.  According to him, he has already travelled to Kashmir […]

Banas´ novel The Jubilation Zone was published in India

January 16th, 2013 The novel was released by the publishing house Samayik Prakashan under the title The Jubilation Zone – Berlin, from the Other Side of the Wall. His novel Zóna nadšenia (Zone of Enthusiasm) was translated into Hindi, the fifth most widely spoken language in the world used by about 380 million people. This is the first translation of a Slovak novel into Hindi. Also for this reason, the Ambassador of India in Slovakia Rajiva Misra gave a reception at the Indian Embassy, which was attended also by the President of Slovakia´s National Council, Pavol Paška. […]

A Cosmopolitan and a European: An interview with Jozef Banáš

October 11th, 2012. Interviewer: Josette Baer   JOSETTE BAER: Every book you have published since 2008 has topped Slovakia’s bestseller list. Your novel about Alexander Dubček made you the bestselling Slovak author in the Czech Republic. What’s the secret of your success?   JOZEF BANÁŠ:In spite of the fact that I have been a member of the Communist Party – how this happened is described in my novel Zona nadšenia (The Jubilation Zone) – people trust me. The idea that every communist is evil and every democrat good is at odds with reality. Willy Brandt once […]

Review Zastavte Dubčeka KOSMAS JBAER

March 11th, 2012. Stop Dubček! The story of the man who annoyed the powerful 1). (Jozef Banáš. Zastavte Dubčeka! Príbeh človeka, ktorý prekážal mocným) Bratislava: Ikar, 2009, ISBN: 978-80-551-2107-9. Reviewed by Josette Baer, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Alexander Dubček (1921–1992) is probably the best-known Slovak, although most people still think of him as being of Czech origin. As the symbol of the reforms of the Prague Spring of 1968, Dubček’s fate after the invasion of the Warsaw pact troops mirrored, to some extent, that of his fellow citizens: the conservative party members whom Moscow put into […]