About the author

Monika Simkovicova

<p>It may seem that I started to write just recently, but the truth is quite the opposite. I&rsquo;ve been writing since my childhood. First, it had been some poems&nbsp;but soon I realised that it&rsquo;s not the right thing for me. My first poem, the one about the very first Czechoslovak cosmonaut, was literally understood by no one&hellip;</p><p>When I was 8 and I wrote&nbsp;<strong>Hands off from Vietnam</strong>, my teachers were bringing me&nbsp;to all the military bases around and I had to recite it&hellip;</p><p>So I gave up on poetry and started to write short stories instead. Some of them even made it into a real book. But that was just the beginning.</p><p>In 2015 I finished a novel called&nbsp;<strong>Roden24</strong>, which was published as an e-book in Slovak, Czech and English. And at the same time, it was also published as an audiobook narrated by the leading Slovak actors.</p><p>And that was the time when Roden started to grow up. It even overtook his older sister&nbsp;<strong>Aluni</strong>, which has been waiting last 5 years to be finished. The novel&nbsp;<strong>VIGIL</strong>&nbsp;was born.</p>