Gergely Péterfy
Gergely Péterfy (born October 31, 1966 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian writer.
Life
Gergely Péterfy is a descendant of the poet Lajos Áprily , his father László Péterfy was a writer, his sister Bori Péterfy is an actress and singer.
Peterfy studied classical philology at the University of Budapest and worked from 1994 to 2011 as an assistant at the University of Miskolc .
He writes novels, radio plays and short stories. In 1998 he published his first novel. His novel, published in 2014, about the relationship between the Hungarian language reformer and free thinker Ferenc Kazinczy and the black valet at the Viennese court, Angelo Soliman , is also a response to the author's ubiquitous fear of the foreign in Hungary. Péterfy received the Aegon Prize in 2015.
Awards
- Móricz Zsigmond ösztöndíj (1994)
- Attila József Prize (2003)
- Márai Sándor díj (2004)
- Déry Tibor díj (2009)
- AEGON művészeti díj (2015)
Works
- Félelem az egértől . Budapest: Liget Műhely Alapítvány, 1994
- AB oldal . Novel. Budapest: Palatinus-Könyvek, 1998
- [Contribution]. Translation by Karlheinz Schweitzer . In: György Dalos (ed.): Hungary from Monday to Friday: stories . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1999
- A tűzoltóparancsnok szomorúsága . Novel. Budapest: Palatinus, 2000
-
Bányató . Budapest: Árkád, 2004
- Quarry pond . Translation: Agnes Relle. Vienna: Zsolnay, 2008
- Misikönyv . Drawings by Csaba Szenteczki. Pozsony: Kalligram, 2005
- Halál budán . Pozsony: Kalligram, 2008
- Örök völgy: Pannon mese (Codex Offlineus) . Pozsony: Kalligram, 2012
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Kitömött barbár . Novel. Budapest: Kalligram, 2014
- The stuffed barbarian . György Buda in Romanian. Vienna: Nischen Verlag, 2016
- Mindentől keletre, avagy, Román kém a Weiss-családban . Budapest: Kalligram, 2015.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gergely Péterfy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Gergely Péterfy in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Gergely Péterfy at perlentaucher.de
- Gergely Péterfy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gergely Péterfy , at port.hu (hu)
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Droste : The black friend . Review. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 15, 2016, p. 12
- ↑ Péterfy Gergely: Kitömött barbár , at aegondij
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Péterfy, Gergely |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |