was born in 1971 and lives in a village in the south of Hungary. He is a literary historian and lecturer at the University of Pécs. His works include The Betrothed of the Virgin Mary, Annunciations, Troubles of the Soul and Bitter Waters.
Milbacher won the first Visegrad Literary Prize (2025) and the Artisjus Literary Prize (2024) for Bitter Waters.
Photo © György Mánfai
Novel
In a village somewhere in Hungary, a place where everything that can happen to a human being does in fact happen, Józsika Bizdó, the eccentric of the village notes down everything that he sees or hears around him into a checked notebook. These stories reveal how gossip, taboo, superstition and the religious beliefs of a village community demonstrate the workings of trauma, amnesia and collective memory. Buoyant, dirty and funny, Milbacher’s prose creates a world not unlike the Macondo of One Hundred Years of Solitude, a model of human communities.
Winner of the Margó Award 2016 for Best First Book of Prose
Product details
ISBN 978 963 1433 84 5
2016, hard cover with jacket
272 pages, 125×197 mm
2990 HUF
Magvető Rights 
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