Réka Mán-Várhegyi (1979) spent her childhood in Târgu Mureș, Romania, and now lives in Budapest, working as editor at a children’s book publisher. Her first collection of short stories, Boldogtalanság az Auróra-telepen (Unhappiness at the Aurora Housing Estate, 2014) was hailed as a surprisingly mature first volume. Besides that collection and her novel Mágneshegy (Magnet Hill, 2018), Mán-Várhegyi has several children’s books and a book for young adults to her name. She is a recipient of the Tibor Déry Prize (2018) and the European Union Prize for Literature (2019).
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Unhappiness at the Aurora Housing Estate
Magnet Hill
Sketch for Something Else
was born in a Hungarian-Slovak family in 1954 in Tótkomlós, in the southeastern corner of Hungary. A sociologist by training, Závada is the author of six novels for which he has won numerous awards.
was born in 1968 in Chișineu-Criș, Romania and studied Hungarian and French in Cluj. He lives in Târgu Mureș, and works as editor-in-chief of the literary journal Látó.
was born in 1977 in Kaposvár. His first book, Dead Heat, became a cult novel, and has been translated into several languages.
was born in 1967. She is one of Hungary’s most highly acclaimed poets and writers. She has won a great number of awards, and her poetry, as well as her short stories have been translated into many languages. She lives in Budapest where, apart from writing, she leads seminars on creative writing. She is a noted translator of, among others, literary fiction, children’s literature and song lyrics from French.
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