Hungarian literature is literature written in the Hungarian language, predominantly by Hungarians.

There is a limited amount of Old Hungarian literature dating to between the late 12th and the early 16th centuries. Middle Hungarian texts of the 16th to 18th centuries are better preserved, with poets such as Bálint Balassi (1554–1594), Sebestyén Tinódi (c. 1510-1556) and Miklós Zrínyi (1620–1664), and some Hungarian translations of Latin texts. The Bible was translated in 1590 by Gáspár Károli.

The language was reformed and standardized in the 19th century, notably under the influence of Ferenc Kazinczy. Modern Hungarian literature has flourished since the 19th century. In 2002, Imre Kertész was the first Hungarian author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

While virtually unknown in the Anglosphere for centuries, Hungary's literature gained renown by the end of the 20th century thanks to a new wave of internationally accessible writers like Antal Szerb, Sándor Márai, Imre Kertész and Magda Szabó.

Old Hungarian[link]

Chronicon Pictum

Gesta Hungarorum

During the Middle Ages and well into the Renaissance, the written language in Hungary was mostly Latin. Important Latin-language documents include the Admonitions of St. Stephen, which includes the king's admonitions to his son, Prince Imre.

The oldest coherent Old Hungarian text is the Funeral Sermon and Prayer (Halotti beszéd és könyörgés) (1192–1195), a translation of a Latin sermon (see also Funerary text and the links below).

The oldest poem is the Old Hungarian Laments of Mary (Ómagyar Mária-siralom), also a (not very strict) translation from Latin, from the 13th century. It is also the oldest surviving Uralic poem.

Both the Funeral Sermon and the Lamentations are hard to read and not quite comprehensible for modern-day Hungarians, mostly because the 26-letter Latin alphabet was not fit to represent all the phonemes in Hungarian language, as diacritic marks and double letters had not been developed yet.

Among the first chronicles about Hungarian history were Gesta Hungarorum ("Deeds of the Hungarians") by the unknown author usually called Anonymus [sic], and Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum ("Deeds of the Huns and the Hungarians") by Simon Kézai. Both are in Latin. These chronicles mix history with legends, so historically they are not always authentic. Another chronicle is the Képes Krónika (Illustrated Chronicle), which was written for Louis the Great.

Further, Rogerius's 13th century work was published with János Thuróczy's chronicle in the late 15th century. In Split Thomas of Spalato wrote on local history with much information on Hungary in the 13th century (at that time Dalmatia and the city were part of Hungary).

Middle Hungarian[link]

Renaissance literature flourished under the reign of King Matthias (1458–1490). Janus Pannonius, although he wrote in Latin, counts as one of the most important persons in Hungarian literature, being the only significant Hungarian Humanist poet of the period. The first printing house was also founded during Matthias' reign, by András Hess, in Buda. The first book printed in Hungary was the Chronica Hungarorum.

In 1526 most of Hungary fell under Ottoman occupation, establishing the beginning of the Middle Hungarian Period, in connection with various cultural changes.

The most important poets of the period were Bálint Balassi (1554–1594), Sebestyén Tinódi (c. 1510-1556) and Miklós Zrínyi (1620–1664). Balassi's poetry shows Medieval influences, and his poems can be divided into three genres: love poems, war poems and religious poems. Zrínyi's most significant work, the epic Szigeti veszedelem ("Peril of Sziget", composed in 1648/49) is written in a fashion similar to The Iliad, and recounts the heroic Battle of Szigetvár, where his great-grandfather died while defending the castle of Szigetvár.

Translation of Roman authors also produced some works: János Baranyai Decsi translated Sallustius's Catalina and Jughurta's War in the late 16th century and a decade later appeared the translation of Curtius Rufus's Alexander's Life in Debrecen.

Historical works were even more numerous: the chronicle of Gáspár Heltai (see right) published by Heltai himself in Kolozsvár, Ferenc Zay's unpublished work on the siege of Beograd from the 15th century, János Kemény's, Transylvanian Duke's, and Miklós Bethlen's memoirs with János Szalárdy's volumes, that time unpublished, work on contemporary Transylvanian history from the 17th century (from Bethlen's reign to 1660s), and Mihály Cserei's work from the early 18th century.

Another category is historical verses in Hungarian, like that of Sebestyén Tinódi from the 16th century, Péter Ilosvay Selymes, Mihály Szabatkai and Gergely Deák.

Latin works in the period are more numerous. István Szamosközy, János Baranyai Decsi, Miklós Istvánffy, János Bethlen, Farkas Bethlen, Ferenc Forgách, György Szerémi, Ambrus Somogyi, Gianmichele Bruto, and Miklós Oláh produced the most important historical works from the 16th to 17th century.

In German Georg Kraus and Georg Zeiler wrote on Transylvanian history. In Spanish Bernardo de Aldana wrote apologies for losing the castle of Lippa in 1552 to the Turks.

Among the religious literary works the most important is the Bible translation by Gáspár Károli, the Protestant pastor of Gönc, in 1590. The translation is called the Bible of Vizsoly, after the town where it was first published (see Hungarian Bible translations for more details). Another important religious work is the Legend of Saint Margaret, copied by Lea Ráskai around 1510 from an earlier work that did not survive.

Modern Hungarian[link]

Enlightenment and the language reform[link]

The Hungarian enlightenment was delayed by about fifty years compared to the Western European enlightenment. The new philosophies reached Hungary via Vienna. The first enlightened writers were Maria Theresia's bodyguards (György Bessenyei, János Batsányi and so on). The greatest poets of the time was Mihály Csokonai Vitéz and Dániel Berzsenyi.

The greatest figure of the language reform was Ferenc Kazinczy. Hungarian linguistic purism of the time introduced calques of loanwords, such as mozdony, "locomotive", coined to replace the earlier lokomotív.

See also[link]

• List of Hungarian writers

External links[link]

General[link]

• A History of Hungarian Literature (From the Earliest Times to the mid-1970s) by Lóránt Czigány
• Albert Tezla: Hungarian authors – A bibliographical handbook
• An overview of Hungarian literature by Daniel Abondolo
• A brefer view, from the 'same' source
• Hungarian literature
• János Kőbányai,Sándor Márai: a smoldering within,"Eretz Acheret" Magazine

summarized at the administrative website of Hungary

• Hungarian Literature Online
• The Hungarian Electronic Library
• Database for translations of Hungarian literary works
• Selected bibliographies of important Hungarian authors
• Magyar poems
• Magyar poetry
• Poetry of the Magyars

Specific sources[link]

• Funeral Oration and Prayer
• Sermon above the grave or the Funeral Oration
• Hungarian poems in English

[edit] Literary chapters from the Encyclopaedia Humana Hungarica (1–5)

• The Remains of Oral Tradition; The Beginning of Literacy (from the beginnings till 1038)
• The External Conditions of Literature; The Characteristics of the Contents of Literature; The Authors; The Works (1038-1301)
• The Level of Education; Authors, Genres, Works (1301-1437)
• Hungarian Literature; Latin Literature; Humanist Literature (1437-1526)
• Hungarian Literature; Turkish Literature (1526-1699)
• (The English translation of volumes 6 to 9 are in preparation.)

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László Krasznahorkai (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈlaːsloː krɒsnɒhorkɒ.i]; born in Gyula, Hungary on 5 January 1954) is a Hungarian writer. He completed his university studies in Hungary, and has supported himself as an independent author since then. When in 1985 his first major publication Satantango achieved success, Krasznahorkai was immediately thrust into the forefront of Hungarian literary life.

He travelled outside of Communist Hungary for the first time in 1987, spending a year in West Berlin as a recipient of a DAAD fellowship. Since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, he has lived in a variety of locations. He returns often to both Germany and Hungary, but he has also spent and spends varying lengths of time in France, Spain, the USA, England, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, China and Japan.

In 1993, his novel The Melancholy of Resistance received the German “Bestenliste-Prize” for the best literary work of the year. From the United States to Japan, critics have acknowledged the importance of his writing. According to Susan Sontag, he is “the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville”. W. G. Sebald had this to say: “The universality of Krasznahorkai's vision rivals that of Gogol's Dead Souls and far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing.” In 1996, he was a guest of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. While completing the novel War and War, he travelled widely across Europe. The American poet Allen Ginsberg was of great assistance in completing the work; Krasznahorkai resided for some time in Ginsberg’s New York apartment, and the poet’s friendly advice was invaluable in bringing the book to life.

In 1990, for the first time, he was able to spend a longer period in East Asia. Krasznahorkai renders an account of his experiences in Mongolia and China in his works The Prisoner of Urga and Ruin and Sorrow beneath the Heavens. From this point, he has returned many times to China. In 1996, 2000 and 2005 he spent six months in Kyoto, Japan.

Since 1985, the renowned director and the author's good friend Béla Tarr has made films almost exclusively based on Krasznahorkais works, including Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies. His collaboration with Tarr continues to this day: Krasznahorkai writes the screenplays, and assists the director in all important decisions.

His works have been translated into English (New Directions Publishers), into German (Rowohlt, Ammann, S. Fischer), French (Gallimard, Cambourakis), Spanish (Acantilado), Polish (W.A.B.), Czech (Host, Mlada Fronta), Bulgarian (Stigmati), Hebrew (Babel) and Japanese (Shoraisha, Keio), among other languages.

Krasznahorkai has been honoured with numerous literary prizes, among them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize. In 2008, he was the S. Fischer guest professor at the Free University of Berlin. He has three children, and since 2007 has lived in Berlin with his second wife, Dorka Krasznahorkai, who is a Sinologist and graphic designer.

Selected publications[link]

Books

• Satantango (Sátántangó), novel, 1985.
• Relations of Grace (Kegyelmi viszonyok), short stories, 1986.
• The Melancholy of Resistance (Az ellenállás melankóliája), novel, 1989.
• The Prisoner of Urga (Az urgai fogoly), novel, 1992.
• Theseus' Rules (A Théseus-általános), three lectures, 1993.
• War and War (Háború és háború), novel, 1999.
• From North a Hill, from South a Lake, from East a Road, from West a River (Északról hegy, Délről tó, Nyugatról utak, Keletről folyó), novel, 2003.
• Ruin and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens (Rombolás és bánat az Ég alatt), novel, 2004.
• Seiobo There Below (Seiobo járt odalent), novel, 2008.
• The Last of the Wolves (Az utolsó farkas), a short story, 2009.

Films

• Damnation (Kárhozat, 1988), directed by Béla Tarr.
• Sátántangó (1994), directed by Béla Tarr.
• Werckmeister Harmonies (Werckmeister harmóniák, 1997-2000/2001), directed by Béla Tarr.
• The Man from London (A Londoni férfi, 2007), directed by Béla Tarr.
• The Turin Horse (A torinói ló, 2011), directed by Béla Tarr.

Sources[link]

• Edit Zsadanyi, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Kalligram, Bratislava,1999
• (French)About The Melancholy of Resistance
• (French)About Sátántangó

External links[link]

• Home page
• David Auerbach, "The Mythology of László Krasznahorkai," The Quarterly Conversation, June 7, 2010
• James Wood, "Madness and Civilization: The very strange fictions of László Krasznahorkai," The New Yorker, July 4, 2011, pp. 71–75.
• Andrew Ervin, "Hungary for More," Philadelphia City Paper, January 18–25, 2001.

Attila József
Statue of József
Born	(1905-04-11)11 April 1905 Ferencváros, Budapest
Died	3 December 1937(1937-12-03) (aged 32) Balatonszárszó
Nationality	Hungarian
Genres	Poetry
Relative(s)	Father Áron József Mother Borbála Pőcze Elder sisters Eta and Jolán
Influences Gyula Juhász Gyula Illyés
Influenced Jenő Dzsida János Pilinszky László Németh

Attila József (pronounced [ˈɒtːilɒ ˈjoːʒɛf], 11 April 1905 – 3 December 1937) was one of the most important and well-known Hungarian poets of the 20th century.

Biography[link]

The son of Áron József, a soap factory worker of Transylvanian origin from Bánát, and Hungarian peasant girl Borbála Pőcze, he was born in Ferencváros, a poor district of Budapest. He had two elder sisters: Eta and Jolán. His father abandoned the family when he was just three years old. They lived in extreme poverty: the mother could barely support the three children and pay rent for the tiny flat they were living in. Thus the children were cared for by the National Child Protection League and foster parents in the country town of Öcsöd, where he worked on a farm. It was typical of the conditions there that his foster father said "There is no such name as 'Attila'", and therefore called him 'Pista'. The conditions were so bad that he escaped back to his mother in Budapest.

His mother died in 1919, aged only 43. After this, he was looked after by Ödön Makai, his brother-in-law, who was relatively wealthy and could pay for his education in a good secondary school. Later he applied to the University of Szeged – his dream was to become a secondary school teacher – but he was soon turned out when a man named Antal Horger determined he was unfit for teaching because of a provocative poem he had written (With All My Heart).

From this point on, he tried to support himself from the little money he earned by publishing his poems. He started showing signs of schizophrenia, and was treated by psychiatrists (now he probably would be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder). He never married and only had a small number of affairs, but frequently fell in love with the women who were treating him.

He died on 3 December 1937, aged 32, at Balatonszárszó, where he was staying at the house of his sister and brother-in-law. Crawling through the railway tracks, he was crushed by a starting train. There is a memorial to him not far from the spot where he died. The most widely accepted view is that he committed suicide, but some experts say that his death was by accident.^[1]

Poetry[link]

Statue of József near the University of Szeged

Attila József is the best known of the modern Hungarian poets internationally. His poems have been translated into many languages and he is taught in world literature classes around the globe. Hailed during the communist era of the 1950s as Hungary's great "proletarian poet", his life, personality, and works are now being re-evaluated with the current celebrations of the centenary of his birth.^[2]

His first volume of poetry was A szépség koldusa (1922) (The beauty's beggar); at that time he was 17 and still in school. József studied privately for a year, and then entered the University of Szeged in 1924 to study Hungarian and French literature. With the help of a maecenas, Lajos Hatvany, he acquired a good education in Austria (1925) and Paris (1926–27), where he studied French literature and discovered the work of François Villon, the famous poet and thief from the 15th-century.

In 1925 József published his second collection of poems, Nem én kiáltok (It's not me who shouts). He was expelled from the university because of a revolutionary poem, Tiszta szívvel (With clear heart). With his manuscripts he traveled to Vienna, where he made a living by selling newspapers and cleaning dormitories, and then to Paris, where he studied at the Sorbonne. During this period he read Hegel and Karl Marx, whose call for revolution appealed to him.

József's works were praised by such internationally known Hungarian researchers and critics as Béla Balázs and György Lukács. In 1927 several French magazines published József's poems.

József's third collection of poems, Nincsen apám se anyám (1929) (I have nor father nor mother), showed the influence of French surrealism and Hungarian poets Endre Ady, Gyula Juhász and Lajos Kassák. The next year József joined the illegal Communist Party of Hungary (KMP). Döntsd a tőkét (Blow down the block/capital) (1931) was confiscated by the public prosecutor and in 1931 József's essay Literature and Socialism (Irodalom és szocializmus) led to indictment. However, not long afterward, he left the Communist Party.

Külvárosi éj (Night in the outskirts), a mature collection of poems appeared in 1932. His most famous love poem, Óda (Ode), from 1933 took the reader for a journey around and inside the body of the beloved woman. József's last two books were Medvetánc (1934) (Bear dance) and Nagyon fáj (1936) (It hurts very much). With these works he gained a wide critical attention. Ideologically he had started to advocate humane socialism and alliance with all democratic forces. Only a few are aware of the fact that it was Attila József who first formulated the ars poetica of transrealism in his 1937 poem Welcome to Thomas Mann.^[3] József's political essays were later included in Volume 3. of his Collected Works (1958).^[4]

Publications[link]

Memorial to Attila József in Balatonszárszó

Original works[link]

• A szépség koldusa ("Beggar of Beauty"), 1922
• Nem én kiáltok ("That's Not Me Shouting"), 1925
• Nincsen apám se anyám ("Fatherless and Motherless"), 1929
• Döntsd a tőkét, ne siránkozz ("Chop at the Roots" or "Knock Down the Capital"), 1931
• Külvárosi éj ("Night in the Slums"), 1932
• Medvetánc ("Bear Dance"), 1934
• Nagyon fáj ("It Hurts a Lot"), 1936

Published posthumously[link]

• Collected verse and selected writings, 1938
• Collected verse and translations, 1940
• Collected works, 1958
• Collected works, 1967
• József Attila: Selected Poems and Texts, 1973 (introduction by G. Gömöri)

English translations[link]

• Perched on Nothing's Branch, 1987 (translated by Peter Hargitai)
• Winter Night: selected poems of Attila József, 1997 (translated by John Batki)^[4]
• The Iron-Blue Vault: selected poems, translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath and Frederick Turner, Bloodaxe Books, 2000 ISBN 1-85224-503-4
• Attila József: Sixty Poems, translated by Edwin Morgan, Edinburgh: Mariscat, 2001 [1]
• A Transparent Lion: selected poems of Attila József; translated by Michael Castro and Gabor G. Gyukics, Los Angeles, CA: Green Integer 149, 2006 ISBN 1-933382-50-3

Tributes[link]

• Exhibition of paintings "Je ne crie pas"/"Nem Kiáltok...!" ("I do not shriek") by Thibault Boutherin, a tribute to Attila's poem "Nem én kiáltok" ("No Shriek of Mine") and dedicated to SGG, in the Karolyi Foundation^[5] in Féhervárcsurgó (Hungary) August/November 2007.
• American band The Party^[6] recorded a country-folk version of Peter Hargitai's English translation of "Tiszta szivvel" ("With All My Heart") in 2004.

Notes[link]

Exhibition of paintings "Je ne crie pas"/"Nem Kiáltok...!" ("I do not shriek") by Thibault Boutherin, a tribute to Attila's poem "Nem én kiáltok" ("No Shriek of Mine") and dedicated to SGG, in the Karolyi Foundation[5] in Féhervárcsurgó (Hungary) August/November 2007. American band The Party[6] recorded a country-folk version of Peter Hargitai's English translation of "Tiszta szivvel" ("Clean With My Heart") in 2004.

External links[link]

• Winter Night: Selected Poems reviewed
• Meeting Attila József
• General Introduction
• Tableau - 2005 in the homepage of Laszlo Forizs
• Five poems of Attila József translated by László Fórizs
• Selected Poems in English (1)
• Selected Poems in English (2)
• Poems in English
• Attila József at Find-A-Grave
• Five poems

Peter Hargitai (born 1947 Budapest, Hungary) is an award winning poet, novelist, and translator of Hungarian literature.

Life[link]

He was born in Budapest, Hungary and as a child lived in the small town of Balástya. At the age of nine, he immigrated with his family shortly after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Master of Fine Arts. He taught at University of Miami, and Umass Amherst.^[1]

He is on the English faculty at Florida International University in Miami.^[2][3]

Awards[link]

• 2009 Martin Luther King, Jr. Poetry Award (1st Place) Miami Gardens, Florida
• 2009 Silver Medal of Honor for teaching Literature of Exile, awarded at Hungarian House, Los Angeles
• 2006 "Medal of Freedom" presented by the American Hungarian Federation in Washington, D.C.
• 2006 American Hungarian Federation Grant to write the novel Daughter of the Revolution in both English and Hungarian languages
• 2000 "Pro Cultura Hungarica" Medal from the Hungarian Ministry
• 1994 Fust-Milan Prize for Translation from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Traveler by Antal Szerb [1]
• 1992 Florida Arts Council Panelist
• 1990 Individual Fiction Fellowship (Florida Arts Council)
• 1988 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Landon Translation Award^[4]
• 1988 Fulbright Grant, Hungary
• 1978 Florida International University, Translation Fellow
• 1976 Martha Holden Jennings Foundation Grant for Poetry Forum Program
• 1975 National Endowmentfor the Arts: Teaching Poetry

Works[link]

Poetry[link]

• Budapest Tales,^[5] pp. 81, 91. New Europe Writers. 2008. ISBN 978-83-923168-5-5. 
• The Quest for the Miracle Stag, Vol. II, poetry in translation. University of Illinois Press. 2003. ISBN 963-210-814-0, 9789632108148. http://www.tertia.hu/h/new.shtml. 
• Mother Tongue. iUniverse. 2003. ISBN 978-0-595-27302-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=ZnRewx9Y1-cC&pg=PP1&dq=Peter+Hargitai. 
• Having a Wonderful Time: An Anthology of South Florida Writers, pp. 184-187. Simon and Schuster. 2003. 
• 60 Years of American Poetry. Abrams, Harry N., Inc. 1996. ISBN 0-8109-4464-2. 
• Forum: Ten Poets of the Western Reserve. Mentor. 1978. ISBN (ASIN: B000WJPVDU). http://smithdocs.net/Clevelandpoetrychron.html#Small. 

Novel[link]

• Approaching My Literature: Readings from the Hungarian Exilic Experience, Vol. One. Cognella University Readers. 2011. ISBN 1-60927-910-7. 
• Approaching My Literature: Translations from the Hungarian Exilic Experience, Vol. Two. Cognella University Readers. 2011. ISBN 1-60927-012-6. 
• 2010: The Little Horn of Prophecy. iUniverse, Incorporated. 2010. ISBN 1-4502-6824-2. 
• Daughter of the Revolution: A Novel. iUniverse, Incorporated. 2006. ISBN 978-0-595-41444-4. 
• A Forradalom Lanya. Puski Kado, Incorporated. 2006. ISBN 978-963-9592-23-0. http://www.puskikiado.hu/index.php?page=catalog&bcat=2&id=1337. 
• Millie. Nagyvilag Kiado, Inc.. 2008. ISBN 978-963-9175-37-2. http://www.nagyvilag-folyoirat.hu/040.html. 
• Millie. iUniverse.com. 2006. ISBN 978-0-595-84308-4. 
• Attila: a Barbarian's Bedtime Story. iUniverse. 2003. ISBN 978-0-595-27300-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=uS7tvbN-bX0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Peter+inauthor:Hargitai. 
• Attila: A Barbarian's Bedtime Story. Püski-Corvin Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-595-84308-4.  ^[6]
• Budapesttol New Yorkig es tovabb. Europa Press. 1991. ISBN (ASIN B004GZF11I). 
• Budapest to Bellevue. Palmetto Press with Kultura Budapest. 1989. ISBN (ASIN B0006ES9FI). 
• Magyar Tales. University of Massachusetts. 1989. 

Translations[link]

• Attilla Jozsef: Selected Poems. iUniverse. 2005. ISBN 978-0-595-35614-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=0m4r8MiaWTgC&pg=PP1&dq=Peter+Hargitai. 
• Inventing Being. iUniverse. 2004. ISBN 978-0-595-33794-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=dIsTQNLnYqcC&pg=PP1&dq=Peter+Hargitai. 
• The Traveler a novel by Antal Szerb. iUniverse. 2003. ISBN 978-0-595-27878-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=h1tLlji5rA4C&pg=PP1&dq=Peter+Hargitai. 
• Perched on Nothing's Branch: Selected Poems of Attila Jozsef. White Pine Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-893996-00-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=V_LtEbG8b9AC&dq=Peter+Hargitai&printsec=frontcover. 
• Perched on Nothing's Branch: Selected Poems of Attila József. Apalachee Press. 1987, 1989, 1993. ISBN 0-915951-21-5 (0-915951-21-5). http://www.worldcat.org/title/perched-on-nothings-branch-selected-poetry-of-attila-jozsef/oclc/16859853?referer=di&ht=edition. 
• The Traveler a novel by Antal Szerb (translation of: Utas és holdvilág). Püski-Corvin Press NY, NY, USA. 1989. ISBN 0-915951-21-5 (0-915951-21-5). http://books.google.com/books?id=mYMnAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+Traveler%22+1994+Puski-Corvin+books&dq=%22The+Traveler%22+1994+Puski-Corvin+books. ^[7][8][9]

Non-fiction[link]

• "Budapest is a riot!". October 29, 2006. http://www.huembwas.org/Hirek/BudapestRiot.htm. 

References[link]

External links[link]

• "Author's website"
• "Author's Book website"

George Szirtes (2011)

George Szirtes ( /ˈsɪərtɛʃ/; born 29 November 1948) ^[1]is a Hungarian-born British poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English. He has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life.

Life[link]

Born in Budapest on 29 November 1948, Szirtes came to England as a refugee in 1956 aged 8. He was brought up in London and studied Fine Art in London and Leeds. ^[1]

His poems began appearing in national magazines in 1973 and his first book, The Slant Door, was published in 1979. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize the following year.

He has won a variety of prizes for his work, most recently the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize, for his collection Reel and the Bess Hokin Prize for poems in Poetry magazine, 2008. His translations from Hungarian poetry, fiction and drama have also won numerous awards.

Szirtes lives in Wymondham, Norfolk, and teaches at the University of East Anglia. He is married to the artist Clarissa Upchurch, with whom he ran The Starwheel Press and who has been responsible for most of his book jacket images. Her interest in the city of Budapest has led to over twenty years of exploration of the city, its streets, buildings and courtyards in paintings and drawings.

Prizes and Honours[link]

• 1980 Faber Memorial Prize for The Slant Door
• 1982 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• 1984 Arts Council Travelling Scholarship,
• 1986 Cholmondeley Prize
• 1990 Déry Prize for Translation The Tragedy of Man
• 1991 Gold Star of the Hungarian Republic
• 1992 Short listed for Whitbread Poetry Prize for Bridge Passages
• 1995 European Poetry Translation Prize for New Life
• 1996 Shortlisted for Aristeion Translation Prize New Life
• 1999 Sony Bronze Award, 1999 - for contribution to BBC Radio Three, Danube programmes
• 1999 Shortlisted for Weidenfeld Prize for The Adventures of Sindbad
• 2000 Shortlisted for Forward Prize Single Poem: Norfolk Fields
• 2002 George Cushing Prize for Anglo-Hungarian Cultural Relations
• 2002 Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship
• 2003 Leverhulme Research Fellowship
• 2004 Pro Cultura Hungarica medal
• 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize, for Reel
• 2005 Shortlisted for Weidenfeld Prize for the Night of Akhenaton
• 2005 Shortlisted for Popescu Prize for The Night of Akhenaton
• 2007 Laureate Prize, Days and Nights of Poetry Festival, Romania
• 2008 Bess Hokin Prize (USA) Poetry Foundation
• 2009 Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize for The Burning of the Books and Other Poems

Works[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• George Szirtes' website
• George Szirtes Blog
• Contemporary Writers
• Writers Artists
• Interview with John Tusa, BBC Radio 3
• George Szirtes T S Eliot Lecture, 2005
• Article in Hungarian Quarterly
• Article by Szirtes' on hidden Jewish roots in Habitus: A Diaspora Journal
• George Szirtes at The Poetry Archive
• Two Poems in Guernica Magazine