Christina Viragh

Christina Viragh - Leipzig Book Fair 2012

Christina Viragh (born January 23, 1953 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian-Swiss writer and translator , among others by Péter Nádas , Sándor Márai , Imre Kertész and Alain-Fournier .

Life

Christina Viragh had to leave her Hungarian homeland with her family in 1956 and moved to Lucerne in 1960 , where she grew up. She studied Philosophy , French and German Literature at the University of Lausanne . From 1985 to 1987 Christina Viragh worked as a teaching assistant for French at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg ( Canada ). She has been a corresponding member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt since 1999 .

Christina Viragh now lives and works in Rome .

Awards

• 1992: Working year in the Canton and City of Lucerne
• 1992: Dienemann Foundation Prize, Lucerne
• 1992: Guest Prize Canton of Bern
• 1992: Swiss Schiller Foundation Award , Zurich
• 1993: Hermann Ganz Prize from the Swiss Association of Writers
• 1993: Pro Helvetia work grant
• 1993/94: Stay at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma
• 1994: STEO Foundation Prize
• 1998: Recognition award from the city of Lucerne
• 1999: Ilse Langner Dramatist Competition, Darmstadt, Germany
• 2000: Prize for Central Switzerland Literature Funding
• 2000: Pro Helvetia work grant
• 2003: Pro Helvetia work grant
• 2003: Individual work award from the Swiss Schiller Foundation
• 2009: Zug translator grant for parallel stories by Péter Nádas
• 2012: European Translator Award Offenburg
• 2012: Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for parallel stories by Péter Nádas (Category: Translation )
• 2012: Brücke Berlin Literature and Translator Prize , together with Péter Nádas, for parallel stories
• 2018: Nomination for the German Book Prize ( longlist ) for one of these nights
• 2019: Swiss Literature Prize for one of these nights
• 2019: Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne

Works

Novels

• Unsteady people . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1992.
• Calls from Beyond the Hill . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1994.
• Mother's book . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1997.
• Pilate . Ammann, Zurich 2003.
• In April . Ammann, Zurich 2006.
  • In April . Dörlemann, Zurich 2020.
• One of those nights . Dörlemann, Zurich 2018.

Translations

sorted by author, then chronologically

• Alain-Fournier : The great Meaulnes . Manesse, Zurich 1997.
• Imre Kertész : A Fateless Novel . Rowohlt, Berlin 1996.
• Mihály Kornis : The hero of our story . Rowohlt, Berlin 1999.
• Dezső Kosztolányi : A hero of his time. The Confessions of Kornél Esti . Rowohlt, Berlin 2004.
• Dezsõ Kosztolányi: Lark. (Pacsita). Manesse Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7175-2144-0 .
• László Krasznahorkai : a mountain in the north, a lake in the south, paths in the west, a river in the east . Fischer, Berlin 2005.
• László Krasznahorkai: Baron Wenckheim's return . Fischer, Berlin 2018.
• Sándor Márai : The embers . Piper, Munich 1999.
• Sándor Márai: The Legacy of Esther . Piper, Munich 2000.
• Sándor Márai: Transformations of a Marriage . Piper, Munich 2003.
• Péter Nádas : love . Rowohlt, Berlin 1996.
• Péter Nádas: parallel stories . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012.
• Péter Nádas: Luminous details . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2017.
• Antal Szerb : Journey in the moonlight . dtv, Munich 2003.

Other works

• Radio play : Back then outside . SWR , 1995.
• Play : Chaos Theory . World premiere: Theater Luzern , 2000.
• A Venice story in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 2020

Web links

• Literature by and about Christina Viragh in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry about Christina Viragh in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Short biography and information on Christina Viragh's work at Literaturport
• Short biography and reviews of works by Christina Viragh at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniela Zinser: The third home . In: taz Die Tageszeitung, March 12, 2012, accessed on July 25, 2012.
2. ↑ Lucerne woman receives European Translator Award . In: Tages-Anzeiger . March 14, 2012. Retrieved March 15, 2012.
3. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/venedig-in-zeiten-des-coronavirus-ld.1544211