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Edina Szvoren

Contributor

Edina Szvoren

Hungary

Edina Szvoren, born in Budapest in 1974, graduated from the Liszt Music Academy in 1998. She has received a wide range of awards for her works published since 2005, including the Attila József Award (2014), the EU Prize for Literature (2015), and the Libri Award for Literature (2019)....

Her short story collections Pertu (On Intimate Terms) and Nincs, és ne is legyen (There Is None, Nor Let There Be) have translated into more than ten languages. Further books from the author in Hungarian include Az ország legjobb hóhéra [The Best Headsman in the Land], Verseim [My Poems, 2018], and Mondatok a csodálkozásról [Sentences on Wondering, 2021].

A pair of wire-rimmed glasses with a crack in one lens lying on a piece of striped fabric

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Éva Popa

By Edina Szvoren

Rather audaciously, given her age, she wore her hair in a buzz cut on the sides and in the back.

Translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet

Working Name: Person

By Edina Szvoren

My parents know more about the Qahatika Indians than about my son.

Translated from Hungarian by Jim Tucker

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Éva Popa

Working Name: Person