Noémi Kiss

Noémi Kiss (2019)

Noémi Kiss (* 1974 in Gödöllő ) is a Hungarian writer whose works have also been translated into German, English, Bulgarian and Serbian. In Germany she is regarded as one of the most important young Hungarian writers.

Life

Kiss studied Hungarian literature , comparative literature and sociology at the University of Miskolc and has been a research assistant in comparative literature there since 2000. She received her doctorate in 2003 with a thesis by Paul Celan (title: Határhelyzetek. Paul Celan költészete és magyar recepciója ) and also spent two years at the University of Konstanz as part of her doctoral thesis . In addition to her books, Kiss also published individual stories, poems and essays, some in German, and works as an editor for the Új Holnap magazine .

Kiss is based in Budapest and has been the mother of twins since the beginning of 2010. From December 2013 to May 2014 she was Writer in Residence at the Literaturhaus Zürich and the PWG Foundation in Zürich.

Works

• Tájgyakorlatok . József Attila Kör-Kijárat Kiadó 2003
• Határhelyzetek. Paul Celan költészete és magyar recepciója . Anonymous 2003
• Trans . Magvető 2006
  • What happened while we slept . Agnes Relle in Romanian. Matthes & Seitz Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-88221-743-8
• Rongyos ékszerdoboz . Magvető Könyvkiadó 2009
  • Shabby jewelry box: Travel to Eastern Europe. Bukovina - Chernivtsi - Galicia - Gödöllő - Lviv - Transylvania - Vojwodina . Translation Eva Zador. Europa Verlag, Berlin, 2015.
• Fekete-fehér. Tanulmányok Fotográfia és irodalom kapcsolatáról . MŰÚT Könyvek, Miskolc, 2011.
• Ikeranya - az első év . Magvető Könyvkiadó 2013
• Sovány angyalok - regény . Magvető Könyvkiadó 2015
  • Drought angel . Novel. Translation Eva Zador. Europa Verlag, Berlin, 2018
• Lámpaoltó Pöttyös néni , children's book, Pozsonyi Pagony Budapest, 2018.
• Balaton, novellák, Magvető, Budapest, 2020.

literature

• Hans-Peter Kunisch: In the spare parts warehouse that night . Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 28, 2010
• Nikola Kuhn: walking a tightrope . Der Tagesspiegel, March 11, 2009
• Judith Leister: When women falter. Work on our taboo zones - stories by the Hungarian Noémi Kiss . Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 9, 2009
• Julia Schiefer: Interview in CROWD: from http://crowd-literature.eu/noemie-kiss-interview/
• Ilma Rakusa : children, literature, sports discipline . Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 28, 2014.
• Anika Stiller: Life, Love and Murder in Goulash Communism . Budapester Zeitung, August 4, 2018 (Review of Dürre Engel )
• Carsten Schmidt: Dürre Engel - a European femininity novel , review, culture magazine Feuilletonscout, Feb. 11, 2019
• Zita Auer: No theses novel - conversation with Noémi Kiss , Litaffin - http://www.litaffin.de/kein-thesenroman-ein-gespraech-mit-noemi-kiss/ , 3.1.2020

Web links

Commons : Noémi Kiss  - collection of images

• official website of Noémi Kiss
• Viktória Radics: Noémi Kiss: The Tattered Jewel Box on Hungarian Literature Online (www.hlo.hu), February 17, 2010
• Orsolya Kolozsi: Noémi Kiss: Mother of Twins on Hungarian Literature Online (www.hlo.hu), August 6, 2013
• Franziska Helms: Traveling through memory . Interview with Noémi Kiss on lettretage.de
• "Art must be autonomous" - conversation with Noémi Kiss by Kathrin Holtz: https://www.budapester.hu/2017/08/23/kunst-muss-autonom-sein
• About Dürre Engel - Zita Auer: No theses novel - conversation with Noémi Kiss , Litaffin - http://www.litaffin.de/kein-thesenroman-ein-gespraech-mit-noemi-kiss/ , 3.1.2020.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Erich Follath : Capital of dreams . DER SPIEGEL 41/2010
2. ↑ Olga Hochweis: Combative and gentle. Portrait of the writer Noemi Kiss . Deutschlandradio Kultur, Radiofeuilleton profile on September 12, 2009
3. ↑ Stefanie Peter: Noémi Kiss: What happened while we slept. On the way with the transsexual train . FAZ June 20, 2009
4. ↑ Biography on the website of the Berlin International Literature Festival 2011 (accessed April 11, 2015)
5. ^ Website Writers in Residence Zurich ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed April 11, 2015)