Timea Tankó
Timea Tankó (born 1978 in Leipzig ) is a Hungarian - German literary translator .
Life
Timea Tankó grew up in Hungary and Germany. She studied French and Spanish as well as cultural studies at the University of Leipzig and graduated in 2004 as a qualified translator. She taught Hungarian from 2001 to 2010 at the University of Leipzig. Since 2003 she has been working as a freelance literary translator and interpreter for Hungarian.
Tankó lives in Berlin .
Awards
- 2019 nomination for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for the translation of Löwenchor ( György Dragománs )
- 2021 Leipzig Book Fair Prize (Category: Translation) for the translation of Apropos Casanova. The Breviary of St. Orpheus ( Miklós Szentkuthy ).
Translations (selection)
- From the Hungarian
- Miklós Szentkuthy : Speaking of Casanova. The Breviary of Saint Orpheus . Epilogue by György Dalos . Berlin: AB - The Other Library, 2020
- György Dragomán : Lion Choir . Novellas. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2019.
- Mátyás Dunajcsik : Underwater Cities . Narratives . Translation together with Lacy Kornitzer . Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2017.
- Péter Gárdos : Fever in the morning: Roman . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2015.
- Andor Endre Gelléri : The industrial laundry . Guggolz, Berlin 2015.
- Andor Endre Gelléri : Stromern . Stories. Guggolz, Berlin 2018.
- András Gerevich : Teiresias' Confessions , Poems. Translated from the Hungarian by Orsolya Kalász , Timea Tankó and Monika Rinck . Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2013.
- Krisztián Grecsó : I have n't seen you for a long time . claassen, Berlin 2007.
- István Kemény : Dear strangers . Braumüller, Vienna 2013.
- Károly Méhes : Secretly . Wieser Verlag, Klagenfurt 2007.
- Szilárd Rubin : The Wolf Pit. Detective novel . Rowohlt, Berlin 2013.
- Szilárd Rubin : The iron angel . Rowohlt, Berlin 2014.
- Iván Sándor : Beloved Liv . dtv, Munich 2006.
- Zoltán Sebők : Parasitic Culture . Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2008.
- Antal Szerb : In the library . dtv, Munich 2006.
- Miklós Vajda : Mother image in an American frame . Braumüller, Vienna 2012.
- From the French
- Carl Aderhold: The Reds. Novel . Arche, Zurich 2017.
- In Hungarian
- Esther Kinsky : Üdülő [summer retreat ]. Scolar kiadó, Budapest 2010.
Web links
- Literature by and about Timea Tankó in the catalog of the German National Library
- Timea Tankó at the hearing
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tankó, Timea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tankó, Tímea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian-German translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |