Zsófia Bán
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Zsófia Bán
Zsófia Bán, author, art and literary critic, has published several collections of essays. She was born in 1957 in Rio de Janeiro and grew up in Brazil and Hungary. She currently teaches American studies in Budapest. Esti iskola was awarded with the Attila József Prize in 2008. Amikor még csak az állatok éltek was awarded the Tibor Déry Prize in 2012 and shortlisted for the International Literature Award – Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2014. In 2021 she was awarded the Spycher: Literaturpreis Leuk (most recent recipients include Judith Schalansky, Joanna Bator and Marie NDiaye). The jury states that Bán’s texts were »grounded in an emphatic view of outsiders reminiscent of the Jewish literature of Central Europe.«
Zsófia Bán, author, art and literary critic, has published several collections of essays. She was born in 1957 in Rio de Janeiro and grew up in Brazil and Hungary. She currently teaches American studies in Budapest. Esti iskola was awarded with the Attila József Prize in 2008. Amikor még csak az állatok éltek was awarded the Tibor Déry Prize in 2012 and shortlisted for the International Literature Award – Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2014. In 2021 she was awarded the Spycher: Literaturpreis Leuk (most recent recipients include Judith Schalansky, Joanna Bator and Marie NDiaye). The jury states that Bán’s texts were »grounded in an emphatic view of outsiders reminiscent of the Jewish literature of Central Europe.«
Praise
»Bán’s narrative universe is characterised by a great degree of unconventionality, of playfulness. It is the wilfulness of literature that speaks from every line […] Yes, let’s believe the unbelievable, let’s dive into this wild cosmos.« Andreas Withensohn, Wiener Zeitung
»Following Zsófia Bán’s bold, piercing outlook onto the world will leave you feeling refreshed.« Literaturen
»Following Zsófia Bán’s bold, piercing outlook onto the world will leave you feeling refreshed.« Literaturen
»Bán’s narrative universe is characterised by a great degree of unconventionality, of playfulness. It is the wilfulness of literature that speaks from every line […] Yes, let’s believe the unbelievable, let’s dive into this wild cosmos.« Andreas Withensohn, Wiener Zeitung
»Following Zsófia Bán’s bold, piercing outlook onto the world will leave you feeling refreshed.« Literaturen
»Following Zsófia Bán’s bold, piercing outlook onto the world will leave you feeling refreshed.« Literaturen
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2020
Zsófia BánYear of Publication: 2020
Keep Breathing
In 1912, Franz Reichelt stands on the Eiffel Tower clad in his home-made parachute, and hesitates, his breath billowing in the cold, »chemistry and scratch marks pulsate like thick snowfall« in the old black and white photograph.
Robika, who would be a seventh grader now if he had a concept of time and went to school, has an obsession: Every week he chooses seven bars of white soap...
Year of Publication: 2014
Zsófia BánYear of Publication: 2014
When There Were Only Animals
Emigration, displacement, the brutal rupture that separates a life into a before and an after – these experiences form the centre of gravity around which the fifteen stories that make up this volume revolve.
On a busy beach in Rio de Janeiro, young Anna is separated from her mother. After a brief nightmarish moment’s confusion, she catches sight of her mother standing at...
On a busy beach in Rio de Janeiro, young Anna is separated from her mother. After a brief nightmarish moment’s confusion, she catches sight of her mother standing at...
Year of Publication: 2012
Zsófia BánYear of Publication: 2012
Night School
»We learn so much over the course of our lives, and then, at the decisive moment, at the grand finale, there is so little of it we can actually use.«
Zsófia Bán’s writing is born out...
Zsófia Bán’s writing is born out...
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