was born in 1972 in Kolozsvár (Cluj Napoca), and moved to Hungary with her family in 1987. She is a writer, poet, and translator (her translations include works by William Shakespeare, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, W. B. Yeats, John Updike, Stuart Parker, and Clive Wilmer). She has published many volumes of poetry and children’s books. She lives in Budaörs with her husband György Dragomán and their two sons.
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Translator of the Year for Children’s Books 2012; Akademie der Künste Berlin—Junge Akademie Fellowship 2006; Vackor Award 2003; Attila József Award 2002; Tibor Déry Award 2000; Sándor Petőfi Award 1996
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was born in 1946 in Budapest. He is one of Hungary’s leading contemporary authors, a writer, dramatist, and eminent translator and scholar of Polish literature. Spiró is one of the most frequently played contemporary playwrights of Hungary. His novel Captivity (2005) was the literary sensation of the year, earning the author the Aegon Prize for best book of the year and listed by The Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2015. Spiró’s works have been translated into English, Czech, Finnish, Hebrew, Polish, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Turkish. His prizes include the Attila József Prize (1982), the Déry Prize (1993), the Madách Prize (1994), the Ernő Szép Prize (1997, 2004), the Milán Füst Prize (2005), the Kossuth Prize (2006), the Aegon Prize (2006), the Angelus Prize (2012), the Artisjus Prize (2012), the Perła Honorowa Prize (2013), and the prize for Best Hungarian Drama of the Year (2015).
An eminent writer and poet, Rakovszky was born in 1950 in Sopron. She had already been well known as one of the best poets of her generation when she wrote her first novel, A kígyó árnyéka (Shadow of a Serpent, 2002), a passionate story of a woman set in the 17th century, which immediately won the Book of the Year Prize. Shadow of a Serpent has been translated into German, Dutch, Italian and Bulgarian. This was followed by A hullócsillag éve (Year of the Falling Star, 2005), taking place in Hungary in the 1950s (translated into Italian); VS (2011), a novel about a 19th century journalist and poet, a woman who lived her life as a man (translated into French, Turkish, Italian and Bulgarian); and several short story collections. Rakovszky has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes, including the Attila József Prize (1988), the Sándor Márai Prize (2003), the AEGON Prize (2007), and the Kossuth Prize (2010).
was born in 1988 in Csíkszereda (today Miercurea Ciuc, Romania), and currently lives in Budapest. He went to university in Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca) and Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mureș), studying communication, journalism, and drama writing. Since 2009 he has published prose pieces in quality literary journals, and two volumes of short stories.
was born in Szajla, a village in north-eastern Hungary in 1943. Oravecz is a major poet and writer. He has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes, including the Kossuth Prize (2003), the Artisjus Prize (2008), the Prima (2015) and the Aegon Prize (2016). Oravecz started publishing poetry in 1962. From the 1960s until the regime change, he defected from communist Hungary to Western Europe and to the US several times. Since 1995, he has been a lecturer at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University, teaching German literature and Native American culture. His latest novels published by Magvető are a trilogy about the disintegration of the Hungarian village.
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