István Kemény (writer)
István Kemény (born October 28, 1961 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian writer .
Life
Kemény began to study law at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest , then switched to studying Hungarian literature and history and graduated in 1983. He published his first volume of poetry in 1984 under the title "Csigalépcsõ az elfelejtett tanszékekhez" ("Spiral staircase to the forgotten faculty"). With his support, Orsolya Kalász and Gerhard Falkner published the anthology of poems "Budapest Scenes" in Germany in 1999 when Hungary was the guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair .
He has been interviewing elderly family members for a number of years and has recorded memories on more than a hundred tapes. These memories span a century and a half of European-Hungarian history, and he plans a great family novel based on this material.
Kemény lives and works in Budapest.
Works
Little of Kemény's poems and writings has been translated.
- I pass the age , poetry, trans. v. Orsola Kalász u. Monika Rinck, Reinecke & Voß , Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-942901-35-2
- A good dream with animals , poems, trans. v. Orsola Kalász u. Monika Rinck, Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-146-5
- Drama together with Attila Bartis : A félszent. Tragédia három felvonásban , published in Pompeii , 1995. 4. sz. A félscent
- bilingual with German translation: Useful ruins : 23 poems German / Hungarian (Célszerű romok). Selected and translated by Orsolya Kalász , Gerhard Falkner , Steffen Popp and Monika Rinck , Frankfurt, M.; Weimar: Gutleut Verlag 2007 ISBN 978-3-936826-64-7
- Kedves Ismeretlen , 2009; German translation: Dear strangers . Translated from the Hungarian by Timea Tankó , Vienna: Braumüller 2013
Awards
- 1989 Zsigmond Móricz Prize
- 1997 Tibor Déry Prize
- 1997 Attila József Prize
- 2001 Zoltán Zelk Prize
- 2002 János Arany Prize
- 2010 DAAD scholarship holder in Berlin
- 2010 Sándor Márai Prize
Web links
- Literature by and about István Kemény in the catalog of the German National Library
- István Kemény in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography at berliner-kuenstlerprogramm 2010
- Short biography at literature festival 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ For the Hungarian catalog raisonné see the Hungarian Wikipedia.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kemény, István |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |