Noémi Kiss (1974) is a Hungarian writer and traveller. Her fiction features independent and vulnerable female figures, who sometimes flirt with the eccentric, but more often struggle in all-too-familiar environments. Her novel Sovány angyalok (Thin Angels, 2015) tells the story of a homicide by an abused woman, Ikeranya (Mother of Twins, 2013) seeks a new language to speak about pregnancy and motherhood, while Trans (2006, in German: Was geschah während wir schliefen, 2009) adventures into the realm of sexuality, borderline experiences, role changes. Kiss is also the author of Rongyos ékszerdoboz (The Tattered Jewel Box, 2018; first edition: 2009, in German: Schäbiges Schmuckkästchen, 2014), a collection of Eastern European travelogues balancing on the edge of fiction and essay. Her latest book Balaton (2020) portrays the hidden tensions under the surface of a both multicultural and hopelessly parochial environment of the most popular holiday resort of the 1980s in Hungary during the final years of dictatorship from the viewpoint of the stories’ young girl narrators. Kiss also teaches literature at the University of Miskolc. Her academic books include an exploration of photography and literature and a monograph on Paul Celan.
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was born in 1962 in Pécs, Hungary. He has worked as art event organizer, journalist, grammar school teacher, and visiting lecturer at the University of Pécs, teaching poetry and translation. He has published four novels, as well as several books of short stories, poetry translations and essays.
was born in 1976 in Szegvár, and lives in Budapest. His unique voice and flair for storytelling has made him one of the most successful Hungarian authors of the mid-generation. His works revolve around the tension between life in Budapest, on the one hand, and in small towns and isolated village communities, on the other. Grecsó has written poems, a theatrical play, screenplays, collections of short stories and five novels, and has won several prizes.
is a pseudonym for a writer born in 1972 who has been publishing short stories since 2006 in literary journals. He has two novels and a volume of short stories to his name.
was born in 1965 in Kolozsvár (today Cluj-Napoca, Romania). She was a student at the National Ballet Institute of Bucharest between 1975 and 1984. A dancer, choreographer and university lecturer, Bodor has been living in Hungary since 1985.
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