Lajos Parti Nagy


Lajos Parti Nagy is a Kossuth Prize-winning Hungarian poet, playwright, writer, editor, critic, and one of the founding members of the Digital Literary Academy.

Biography

Nagy spent his childhood at Tolna, Kaposvár and Székesfehérvár. He graduated from high school in 1972, then graduated in Literature and History in 1977 from the Teacher Training College of Pécs.
He worked for the Baranya County Library for two years, then from 1979 to 1986 as an editor for the literary magazine Jelenkor, in which his poems had been first published in 1971. He worked in the 80s as a member of the editorial board of "JAK notebooks".
He has been living in Budapest since 1986 as a freelance writer and literary translator.

Works

Angyalstop "Angelstop" Csuklógyakorlat "Wrist Exercises" Szódalovaglás "Soda Ride/Riding" Gézcsók "Gauze Kiss" Se dobok, se trombiták "Neither Drums, Nor Trumpets" Esti kréta "Evening Crete/Chalk" Ibusár – Mauzóleum "Ibushar" , "Mausoleum" Sárbogárdi Jolán: A test angyala "Jolán Sárbogárdi: The Angel of the Body", a parody of a teenage girl's diary with corrupted clichés of the uneducated speechA hullámzó Balaton "The Rippling Lake of Balaton" or "Billowy Balaton", translated as "A Swell on Balaton" Hősöm tere "My Hero's Square" Fényrajzok "Light Drawings" Kacat, bajazzó "Junk and Pagliaccio" Grafitnesz "Graphitness" A fagyott kutya lába "The Frozen Dog's Leg" A vak murmutér "The Blind Marmot" A pecsenyehattyú és más mesék "The Roast Swan and Other Stories" Petőfi Barguzinban "Petőfi in Barguzin" Az étkezés ártalmasságáról "On the Harmfulness of Eating", lecture Fülkefor és vidéke: magyar mesék "Booth Revolution and its Countryside – Hungarian tales" Mi történt avagy sem "What Happened or Did Not" Fülkeufória és vidéke: Százegy új magyar mese "Booth Euphoria and its Vicinity: A Hundred and One New Hungarian Tales"

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Awards

Works and reviews in English

  • * , another translation of the above short story, with an author's portrait at the bottom
  • on The Angel of the Body