László Darvasi
László Darvasi, born in 1962 in southern Hungary, has worked as a teacher and journalist. He came to prominence as a poet and published short works of prose and novellas. Darvasi, who lives in Szeged and Budapest, is considered one of the greatest talents in Hungarian literature. In 2019, he received the »Aleksandar Tišma« International Literary Prize for his work.
László Darvasi, born in 1962 in southern Hungary, has worked as a teacher and journalist. He came to prominence as a poet and published short works of prose and novellas. Darvasi, who lives in Szeged and Budapest, is considered one of the greatest talents in Hungarian literature. In 2019, he received the »Aleksandar Tišma« International Literary Prize for his work.
PUBLICATIONS
Winter Morning
An entire orchestra dies tragically during a bus accident; sole survivor is the drummer, who sets about carrying out their task single-handedly: releasing patients of a psychiatric...
Italy (Il Saggiatore), Bulgaria (Paradox), Serbia (Akademska Knjiga)
The Flower Eaters
Like in his novel Die Legende von den Tränengauklern (A könnymutatványosok...
Spanish world rights (Sexto Piso), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Poland (Jagiellonian UP), Czech Republic (Dauphin), Bulgaria (Paradox)
When a Centre Forward is dreaming
Croatia (Fraktura), Turkey (Iletisim)
Mr. Stern
Some stories you never forget.
A forester finds a human arm in the forest, buried in the earth, still warm; it must have been ripped out with enormous force – but the body it belonged to is nowhere to be found. Before the mystery is solved in what is literally the novel’s final sentence, we hear the sad story of Mr. Stern, a private academic, who holds...
The Dog Hunters of Lojang
Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Romania (Nemira)
Getting Hold of a Woman
Croatia (Fraktura)
The Legend of the Tear Jugglers
Italy (Il Saggiatore), Netherlands (Wereldbibliotheek), Czech Republic (Dauphin)