Zsófia Bán

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Zsófia Bán (born September 23, 1957 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil) is a Hungarian writer, essayist and literary and art critic.

Zsófia Bán

Life

Zsófia Bán grew up as a child of Jewish parents in Brazil, and in 1969 the family returned to Hungary. From 1976 to 1981 she studied English and Romance languages in Budapest , Lisbon , Minneapolis and New Brunswick . She worked in film studios, as an exhibition curator and was a research assistant at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , at the John F. Kennedy Institute in Berlin and at Harvard University . In 2014 she was the town clerk in the Swiss city of Zug . From August 2015 to July 2016, Bán took part in the DAAD's Berlin artist program.

Zsófia Bán lives and works in Budapest, where she teaches as an Associate Professor of American Studies at the Loránd Eötvös University .

Write

Zsófia Bán's writing deals with visuality, visual arts, photography, memory culture, historical trauma and gender. She has written a large number of essays on literature and visuality, for example on WG Sebald , Susan Sontag , Imre Kertész and Péter Nádas . Her short stories and essays received a lot of attention and have been translated into a variety of languages, including German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Slovak and Slovenian.

Works

stories

  • Lehet lélegezni! . Budapest, Magvető, 2018.
  • Amikor még csak az állatok éltek . Budapest, Magvető, 2012. ISBN 978-96-31430-10-3 .
  • Esti iskola - Olvasókönyv felnőtteknek . Budapest / Bratislava, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7149-921-3 .
    • Evening School - A primer for adults , translated by Terézia Mora. Berlin, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978-3-518-42289-2 .
    • Escuela nocturna - Manual de lectura para adultos , translated by José Miguel González Trevejo. Madrid, Ediciones Siruela, 2015. ISBN 978-84-16396-11-5 .
    • Night School: A Reader for Grownups , translated by Jim Tucker. Rochester, Open Letter Books, 2019.

Essays

  • The summer of our displeasure , essays, translated by Terézia Mora. Berlin, Matthes & Seitz / DAAD, 2019. ISBN 978-3-957-57720-7 .
  • Turul és dínó . Budapest, Magvető, 2016.
  • Exponált Emlék - Családi képek a magán- és közösségi emlékezetben , Zsófia Bán and Hedvig Turai (eds.). Budapest, AICA / Argumentum, 2008. ISBN 978-9-630-65195-0 .
    • Exposed Memory: Family Pictures in Private and Collective Memory . Budapest, AICA-CEU Press, 2010. ISBN 978-9-639-77670-8 .
  • Próbacsomagolás . Budapest / Bratislava, Kalligram, 2008. ISBN 978-80-8101-056-9 .
  • Családi fényképek a privát és közösségi emlékezetben . In: Soá , Budapest, Magyar Iparművészeti Egyetem, 2004 [proceedings].
  • Amerikáner: A huszadik századi amerikai irodalom és mûvészet cultic darabjai . Budapest, Magvető, 2000.
  • Desire and De-Scription: Words and Images of Postmodernism in the Late Poetry of William Carlos Williams . Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1999. ISBN 978-9-042-00463-4 .
  • The second chamber of the heart , Der Tagesspiegel , February 5, 2016.

Awards

  • 2020: Best Children's Book of the Year Prize (Children's Jury)
  • 2018: Acquisition Award, LOOP Barcelona Video Festival (in co-production with Péter Forgács)
  • 2014: International Literature Prize - House of World Cultures (shortlist)
  • 2013: Glass Marble Prize
  • 2013: Aegon Art Prize (shortlist)
  • 2012: Tibor Déry Prize
  • 2009: Palládium Prize
  • 2009: Mozgó Világ Prize
  • 2008: Aegon Prize (shortlist)
  • 2008: Attila József Prize
  • 2007: Balassa Péter Prize

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://das.elte.hu/content/faculty/ban/cv.html
  2. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Take a breath in the deceptive peace. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bán, Zsófia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian writer, essayist and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro