Lajos Parti Nagy (born
Szekszárd, October 12, 1953) 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 (today:
University of Pécs).
He worked for the Baranya County Library for two years (until 1979), then from 1979 to 1986 as an editor for the literary magazine Jelenkor ("Our Age"), 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" ("
József Attila Circle Literary Association").
He has been living in
Budapest since 1986 as a freelance writer and literary translator.
Works
Angyalstop "Angelstop" (poems, 1982)
Csuklógyakorlat "Wrist Exercises" (poems, 1986)
Szódalovaglás "Soda Ride/Riding" (poems, 1990)
Gézcsók "Gauze Kiss" (play, 1992)
Se dobok, se trombiták "Neither Drums, Nor Trumpets" (feuilleton stories, 1993)
Esti kréta "Evening Crete/Chalk" (selected poems, 1995)
Sárbogárdi Jolán: A test angyala "Jolán Sárbogárdi: The Angel of the Body" (a "foamsody", novella, 1997; audiobook, 2007), a parody of a teenage girl's diary with corrupted clichés of the uneducated speech
A hullámzó Balaton "The Rippling Lake of
Balaton" or "Billowy Balaton", translated as "A Swell on Balaton" (short stories, 1999)
Hősöm tere "My Hero's Square" (novel, 2000)
Fényrajzok "Light Drawings" (2001)
Kacat, bajazzó "Junk and
Pagliaccio" (script book, illustrated by Ferenc Banga, 2002)
Lajos Parti Nagy (born
Szekszárd, October 12, 1953) 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 (today:
University of Pécs).
He worked for the Baranya County Library for two years (until 1979), then from 1979 to 1986 as an editor for the literary magazine Jelenkor ("Our Age"), 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" ("
József Attila Circle Literary Association").
He has been living in
Budapest since 1986 as a freelance writer and literary translator.
Works
Angyalstop "Angelstop" (poems, 1982)
Csuklógyakorlat "Wrist Exercises" (poems, 1986)
Szódalovaglás "Soda Ride/Riding" (poems, 1990)
Gézcsók "Gauze Kiss" (play, 1992)
Se dobok, se trombiták "Neither Drums, Nor Trumpets" (feuilleton stories, 1993)
Esti kréta "Evening Crete/Chalk" (selected poems, 1995)
Sárbogárdi Jolán: A test angyala "Jolán Sárbogárdi: The Angel of the Body" (a "foamsody", novella, 1997; audiobook, 2007), a parody of a teenage girl's diary with corrupted clichés of the uneducated speech
A hullámzó Balaton "The Rippling Lake of
Balaton" or "Billowy Balaton", translated as "A Swell on Balaton" (short stories, 1999)
Hősöm tere "My Hero's Square" (novel, 2000)
Fényrajzok "Light Drawings" (2001)
Kacat, bajazzó "Junk and
Pagliaccio" (script book, illustrated by Ferenc Banga, 2002)