Károly Fellinger

Károly Fellinger is an ethnic Hungarian poet, writer, local historian living in Slovakia. He was born and raised in Czechoslovakia as part of the ethnic Hungarian community in that country.

Life and works

Born in Bratislava, Károly Fellinger lives in Jelka since his childhood. During his high school years in the Hungarian Academic Grammar School of Galanta, he was the editor in chief of the school journal and the founding editor of the quarterly review Words of Jelka between 1993 and 2003. He used to work as an agronomist, now he runs his own smallholding. He has published 20 books in Hungarian so far. Most of them are collections of poems for adults and children, a village monograph and tales. As a mythographer, he collected the tales and legends of Mátyusföld. His volumes of poetry have been published in English, German, Romanian, Serbian, French, Russian, Slovak and Turkish. He has been awarded the Golden Opus Prize of the SZMÍT twice and the Imre Forbáth Prize for the best collection of poetry written in Hungarian in 2014. In 2013, he was the winner of the Bóbita poetry contest of the Hungarian Writers' Association. He was a deputy of the municipal council for twenty years and the deputy mayor for years.
In 2014, his volume of selected poetry was translated in English and published in Canada. His poem was featured in the international anthology Poems for the Hazara in 2014. In the same year, Károly Pallai devoted an English language analysis to the poetry of Fellinger. His first collection of poems in French was published by the prestigious Éditions du Cygne in Paris. In 2016, he received the prestigious Madách Award of the Slovakian Literary Fund for his collection of poems Különbejárat. In 2016, he was the only Slovakian author to be published in the 2015 edition of the World Poetry Yearbook. In 2016, his poems were selected and published in the yearly anthology of the Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia. In 2016, his poems were published in Spain and in Canada, and a volume of his best poems was also released.
In 2017, his tales were published in a bilingual, Hungarian-English edition. His poems were featured in Empty Mirror and Setu, Sipay, A New Ulster, Ygdrasil and in the prestigious Belgian review Traversées. In 2017, he received the Tibor Simkó Prize of the Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia for his collection of tales Ilka vára. In the same year, he was awarded the Medal of the Chairman of the Trnava Self-Governing Region for his contribution to culture. His new poems were published under the title Köti a sötétséget by Media Nova and his second collection of poems in French appeared in Paris. His poem "Elbocsátó" was translated in English by Károly Sándor Pallai and published in the international poetic anthology Amaravati Poetic Prism.
He is a member of the Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia and of the Hungarian Writers' Association.

Literary prizes

2017: Medal of the Chairman of the Trnava Self-Governing Region for cultural contribution
2017: Tibor Simkó Prize
2016: Madách Award
2014: Imre Forbáth Prize
2013: Bóbita Poetry Prize
2011: Golden Opus Prize
2010: Golden Opus Prize

Major works

2018: Szimering, Kalligram Kiadó, Bratislava, Slovakia
2018: Hullámvasút, Vámbéry Polgári Társulás, Media Nova M, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2018: Mindjárt gondoltam, Vámbéry Polgári Társulás, Media Nova M, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2017: ΦΩΣ ΣΤΙΣ ΠΕΥΚΟΒΕΛΟΝΕΣ poetry by ΚΑΡΟΛΟΣ ΦΕΛΙΝΓΚΕΡ, OSTRIA, Athens, Greece.
2017: À l'affût de Dieu, Éditions du Cygne, Paris, France
2017: Köti a sötétséget, Media Nova M, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2017: A Kincsesláda – The Treasure Chest, AB-ART, Bratislava, Slovakia
2016: Fellinger Károly legszebb versei, AB-ART, Ekecs, Slovakia
2016: Sieve of Light in the Pine Forest, Ekstasis Editions, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2016: Dios está ausente, Luhu Editorial, Alcoy, Spain
2016: Ilka vára, Vámbéry Polgári Társulás, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2016: Kéreggyűjtés, AB-ART, Ekecs, Slovakia
2015: Különbejárat, Media Nova M, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2015: Pokora, Hungarian Writers' Association of Slovakia, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2015: Bétonnière ivre, Éditions du Cygne, Paris, France
2015: Kincsesláda, AB-ART, Ekecs, Slovakia
2015: Zavesa iz lucsej szveta, Vest-Konszalting, Moscow, Russia
2015: Tevazu, Siirden Yayincilik, Istanbul, Turkey
2014: Din cartea uitarii, Tipo Moldova, Iași, Romania
2014: Humility, Libros Libertad, Surrey, Canada
2014: Jancsi és Juliska, AB-ART, Ekecs, Slovakia
2014: Csigalépcső, AB-ART, Ekecs, Slovakia
2013: Poniznost, Umetnicka Scena Siveri Janos, Mužlja, Serbia
2013: Demut, Windrose, Frauenkirchen, Austria
2013: Morzsabál, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2013: Alázat, AB-ART, Ekecs, Slovakia
2012: Rész és egész, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2011: Mákom van, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2011: Csomagmegőrző, Mosonvármegye Könyvkiadó, Mosonmagyaróvár
2010: Dióbölcső, mákfejcsörgő, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2009: Hajléktalan búzavirág, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2008: Szélkergető kerek köpeny, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2006: Fűhárfa, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2004: Fészek az égen, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
1997: Jóka-nevezetességek, Honismereti Kiskönyvtár, Komárno, Slovakia
1997: Égig érő vadkörtefák, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
1996: Csendélet halottakkal, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
1991: Áramszünet, Madách, Bratislava, Slovakia