László Márton

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László Márton (born April 23, 1959 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian writer and literary translator from German. Márton also writes in German.

Life

Márton studied German, Hungarian literature and sociology at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest. From 1983 to 1990 he worked as a publishing editor at "Helikon Verlag". In 1983 he began to publish his own work, both short stories and novels as well as plays.

As a translator he has works by Martin Luther ; Andreas Gryphius ; Volker Braun ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( Faust I ); Günter Grass ( The meeting in Telgte ); Jakob Grimm ; August Jacob Liebeskind ; Novalis ( Heinrich von Ofterdingen ) translated into Hungarian.

The translation of Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas was also the inspiration for him for the novel about Jacob Wunschwitz's struggle against the arbitrariness of the authorities in the small town of Guben in Lower Lusatia at the beginning of the 17th century .

Prizes and awards

Works (in German)

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