Age Book of the Year Awards
They've announced the winners of this year's Age Book of the Year Awards; see, for example, Kylie Northover's report in The Age, A late-career marvel and an enriching memoir: The Age Book of the Year winners.
Rodney Hall's Vortex won in the fiction category; see also, for example, the Picador Australia publicity
Five bank robbers sent to jail
SEVENTEEN years after the robbery of the Nitra branch of the Všeobecná Úverová Banka, dubbed the biggest bank heist in the history of Slovakia, the Nitra Regional Court delivered its ruling on the case, sentencing five of the defendants to prison for five to eight years each. They are also required to pay damages to the bank, the SITA newswire reported on March 11
The two parts of Jakub Króner’s crime biopic on mafia boss Mikuláš Černák topped the list of local films at the domestic box office in 2024 and opened strongly in 2025, respectively
Jakub Kroner steps into the dark world of an infamous Slovakian mafia boss in Miki
Miki Černák, a boy from Telgárt, became a respected boss of a mafia group. But it is not enough for Černák. He wants to dominate all of Slovakia. Become the boss of all bosses. However, the way to the top is lined with traitors and corpses. And Černák underestimated the strongest mafia that ever ruled Slovakia - politicians and their secret service
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