György Dragomán
György Dragomán (born September 10, 1973 in Târgu Mureș , Romania ) is a Hungarian writer and translator .
Life
Dragomán spent the first fifteen years of his life in Târgu Mureș . He belonged to the Hungarian minority in Romania living in Transylvania . In 1988 his parents, dentist and teacher, emigrated with him and a younger brother to Szombathely in Hungary . He studied languages at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest .
Dragomán published his first novel in 2002: Unfinished Genesis is a dark and brutal story about three days in the life of a young military architect who witnesses a genocide. In 2003, Dragomán was awarded the Hungarian Bródy Prize for the best debut of the year for this book .
Dragomán translated Samuel Beckett's novella Watt into Hungarian for ten years . He has also translated prose by Irvine Welsh , James Joyce and Ian McEwan . His novel “The White King” (2005) has been translated into 30 languages. In July 2008 the novel made it to number one on the ORF best list .
The author lives with his wife, the poet Anna T. Szabó , and two children near Budapest in Budaörs .
Works (selection)
- A pusztítás Königyve. Balassi Kiadó, Budapest 2002, ISBN 963-506-473-X , (The Book of Destruction).
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A fehér király. Magvető Kiadó, Budapest 2005, ISBN 963-14-2437-5 .
- The white king . Translated from the Hungarian by Laszlo Kornitzer . Frankfurt, M.: Suhrkamp 2008.
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Máglya. Magvető Kiadó, Budapest 2014, ISBN 978-963-14-2997-8
- The pyre . Translated from the Hungarian by Laszlo Kornitzer. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2015.
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Oroszlánkórus . 2015
- Lion Choir: Novellas . Translation Timea Tankó . Berlin: Suhrkamp 2019
Web links
- Literature by and about György Dragomán in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about György Dragomán in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- György Dragomán , website
- Reviewed June 29, 2008 in the NYT
- Review of "The White King"
- Review of “The Stake”, Die Zeit, January 14, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Szabó T., Anna at WorldCat and Anna T. Szabó in the Hungarian Wikipedia
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dragomán, György |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian writer and translator |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1973 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Târgu Mureș , Romania |