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born in 1964 in Dunaújváros (Hungary), lives and works in Budapest and Berlin. From 1980 to 1985, she studied German Philology, Hungarian Literature, and Linguistics at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest. Since 1984, she has been active as an author and translator. Her texts have appeared in various Hungarian literary journals, including Nappali Ház, Jelenlét, Vigilia, and Árgus.
In 1997, she published her first bilingual volume of poetry, Babymonster und die Gärtner, as part of the “Poetische Boegen” series. She translated her own poems into German for this edition. Together with Gerhard Falkner, she edited the highly acclaimed anthology Budapester Szenen. In 2017, she was awarded the Peter Huchel Prize for German-language poetry. The jury honored her poetry collection Das Eine (published by Brueterich Press) as an outstanding new release of 2016.
Babymonster und die Gärtner / Babarém és a kertészek (Poems).
Connewitzer Verl.-Buchh, Leipzig 1997.
Budapester Szenen: Junge ungarische Lyrik
(Budapest Scenes: Young Hungarian Poetry). DuMont Verlag, Cologne 1999.
Ich habe keine andere Wahl als einen Garten zu finden / Más választásom nem marad mint találni egy kertet (Poems). Featuring drawings by Jutta Obenhuber. Gutleut Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006.
alles was wird, will seinen strauch / Ami był, még bokor akar lenni
(Poems). Gutleut-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007.
Das Eine (The One). Poems. Brueterich Press, Berlin 2016.
Events
Hungarian Rhapsodies
Mon, 6. Jul // 18:00,
Maschinenhaus (Kulturbrauerei) entrance: Knaackstraße 97, 10435 Berlin
