György Dragomán

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György Dragomán (2007)

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).
  • 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.
  • Máglya. Magvető Kiadó, Budapest 2014, ISBN 978-963-14-2997-8
    • The pyre . Translated from the Hungarian by Laszlo Kornitzer. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2015.
  • Oroszlánkórus . 2015
    • Lion Choir: Novellas . Translation Timea Tankó . Berlin: Suhrkamp 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Szabó T., Anna at WorldCat and Anna T. Szabó in the Hungarian Wikipedia
personal data
SURNAME Dragomán, György
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Târgu Mureș , Romania