Ottó Kiss

Ottó Kiss [ ˈotːoː kiʃ ] (born October 10, 1963 in Battonya , southern Hungary) is a Hungarian writer.

Life

Kiss lives in Gyula today . He worked for a long time as an editor of a weekly newspaper and wrote for daily newspapers, and since 2000 he has worked for the literary magazine Bárka . In 1999 he drew attention to himself with the novel Szövetek ( Textile ) and has been omnipresent in Hungarian literature ever since. Many of his poems and short stories have been translated into English, German, Slovak, Bulgarian and Serbian. In 2003 his book Csillagszedő Márió (Mario, the Star Collector) was awarded the Book of the Year prize by the Hungarian Writers' Association.

Works

• Lopott levegő . Körös Könyvtár, Békéscsaba 1990 (Poems, German: Stolen Air )
• Szilveszteri kaland . Mese Art, Békéscsaba 1993 (stories (writings), German: Adventures on New Year's Eve )
• Visszafelé hull a hó . Tevan, Békéscsaba 1997 (poems for children's voice, German: When the snow falls up )
• Szövetek . JAK-Kijárat, Budapest 1999 (novel, German: tissue )
• Az elmerält kert . Körös Könyvtár, Békéscsaba 2000 (short prose, German: The sunken garden )
• Csillagszedő Márió . Móra, Budapest 2002 (poems for children's voice , German: Mario, the star collector )
• Angyal és Tsa . Palatinus, Budapest 2003 (short stories, German: Engel & Co. )
• Javrik Königyve . Palatinus, Budapest 2004 (Roman, German: The Book of Javrik )

published in German

• Mario the star collector. Diary for my parents. German by Clemens Prinz . Schenk Verlag, Passau 2006.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ottó Kiss in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author profile on literatur.hu