Katarina Durica

KATARINA DURICA is a Hungarian from Slovakia, author and investigative journalist whose work sits at the intersection of storytelling and social inquiry. Born in Bratislava in 1983 and raised in Šamorín as part of the Hungarian minority, she spent years living and working across Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, and Tunisia — experiences that shaped her unflinching lens on women navigating the margins of society and inspired her first novel. She is the author of five bestselling novels. Her book Good Girls Cry in Silence was adapted for the stage at Budapest’s Vígszínház and its film rights have been sold. Her reporting has taken her inside women’s prisons in Hungary; she has covered elections in Slovakia and street protests in the region. Her investigative work documents the lives of women others prefer not to see: survivors of mafia violence in 1990s Dunajská Streda, sex workers in Slovakia and Hungary, and the largely invisible world of illegal surrogacy and egg donation across Central-Eastern Europe.

Last edited in June, 2026.