László Végel
László Végel (born February 1, 1941 in Srbobran , then Kingdom of Yugoslavia , now Serbia) is a Hungarian-speaking author who lives in Novi Sad in Serbia .
Life
Végel's parents belonged to the Hungarian minority in Vojvodina. Végel studied philosophy in the provincial capital Novi Sad and in the Yugoslav capital Belgrade and then worked as a journalist, a. a. as editor of the Hungarian-language daily newspaper “Magyar Szó” and from 1965 to 1971 as co-editor of the monthly newspaper and literary magazine “Új Symposium” (“New Symposium”), which is also Hungarian. As a dramaturge for Novi Sad TV and the Subotica Popular Theater , he wrote several scripts and plays. In addition, he wrote novels and essays, which in Yugoslavia were sometimes published in the Serbo-Croatian translation before the original Hungarian version was published. Végel published his first epic work in 1967, "Egy makró emlékiratai" ("The great memorabilia"), which Alexander Tisma translated into Serbian at the time .
From 1994 until its closure in 2001, Végel headed the Soros Foundation's Novi Sad office.
In 2006 he was a guest at Heinrich-Böll-Haus in Germany , was a participant in the DAAD's Berlin artist program and at the international literature festival berlin (ilb) .
Prizes and awards
In Hungary he has received a number of literary prizes, such as the Ady Endre-díj in 1993 and the Kossuth Prize in 2009 . In 2005 he received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary .
Works in German translation
- Outside territory. Scenes from the end of the millennium . Translated from the Hungarian by Akos Doma . Matthes & Seitz Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-88221-111-5
- Neoplanta - Novi Sad: a city on the edge of Europe . Essay. Translated from the Hungarian by Laszlo Kornitzer . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3518125830
- Confessions of a pimp . Novel. Translated from the Hungarian by Lacy Kornitzer. Matthes & Seitz Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-88221-629-5 . ("Egy macro emlékiratai")
- Atonement. Texts on the go . Translated from the Hungarian by Lacy Kornitzer. Matthes & Seitz Verlag, Berlin 2012, 189 pp. ISBN 978-3-88221-599-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about László Végel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short bio at ilb 2006
- Laslo Vegel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- László Végel website (in German)
Individual evidence
- ^ "Uj Symposium" ("New Symposium") see Hungarian Wikipedia hu: Új Symposion
- ↑ A Europe seeker feels like a pariah , review by Uwe Stolzmann in Deutschlandradio Kultur from January 31, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Végel, László |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vegel, Laslo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian author living in Serbia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Srbobran |