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.
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Following You
A Masked Ball
There’s Room for You Beside Me
Vera
Something Folksy
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.
Born in 1946 in Budapest, Bereményi graduated in Budapest as a Hungarian and Italian teacher in 1970, and in the same year published a volume of short stories entitled A svéd király (The Swedish King). He wrote and later directed films, wrote plays and song lyrics, the latter mainly for Tamás Cseh, a singer and performer who became a cult figure in the 1970s. He has been awarded many prestigious prizes, including the Kossuth, the Attila József and the Béla Balázs Prize.
The counterpart of the author’s Cloud Stories, Torchlight Stories contains five tales, illustrated with Bíbor Timkó’s magical drawings. Krisztina Tóth’s torchlight illuminates various hidden spots and unfamiliar creatures living in the city: for example, the tiny mouse who operates the only traffic light of the city with no electricity, and the secret snowman who lives in Lili’s freezer in summertime. We are introduced to inhabitants of the metro—a huge, friendly centipede and a monster who eats children’s boots—and we get a sneak peek into the nightlife of toys in the kindergarten.
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