Lajos Parti Nagy

Lajos Parti Nagy (Szekszárd, October 12, 1953 –) Kossuth Prize winner Hungarian poet, playwright, writer, editor, critic, one of the founding members of the Digital Literary Academy.

Biography

He spent his childhood at Tolna, Kaposvár and Székesfehérvár, where he graduated from high school in 1972, then he graduated in Literature and History in 1977 at the Teacher Training College of Pécs (today: University of Pécs). Subsequently, he worked for the Baranya County Library for two years (till 1979), then as an editor for the literary magazine Jelenkor ("Our Age") from 1979 till 1986, where his poems had been first published in 1971. He worked in the 80's 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)
Ibusár – Mauzóleum "Ibushar" [1992], "Mausoleum" [1995] (plays, 1996)
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)
Grafitnesz "Graphitness" (poems, 2003; audiobook, 2007)
A fagyott kutya lába "The Frozen Dog's Leg" (short stories, 2006)
A vak murmutér "The Blind Marmot" (prose, ill. by Ferenc Banga, 2007)
A pecsenyehattyú és más mesék "The Roast Swan and Other Stories" (volume of tales, ill. by Ferenc Banga, 2008; audiobook, 2009)
Petőfi Barguzinban "Petőfi in Barguzin" (poem, ill. by András Felvidéki, 2009)
Az étkezés ártalmasságáról "On the Harmfulness of Eating", lecture (2011, 2012)
Fülkefor és vidéke: magyar mesék "Booth Revolution and its Countryside – Hungarian tales (2012)
Mi történt avagy sem "What Happened or Did Not" (short stories, 2013)
Fülkeufória és vidéke: Százegy új magyar mese "Booth Euphoria and its Vicinity: A Hundred and One New Hungarian Tales" (2014)

Translations

Tomaž Šalamun: Poker
Michel Tremblay: Les Belles-sœurs
Eberhard Streul: The Prop Man
Molière: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme and Tartuffe
Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott: Picture Book for Good Children
Werner Schwab: Die Präsidentinnen "First Ladies" (joint translation with Mária Szilágyi)

Awards

1982 Bölöni Award
1987 Zsigmond Móricz Grant
1988, 1993 MTA-Soros Grant
1990 Tibor Déry Award
1991 Graves Award
1991-1992 Playwrights Grant
1991 Magyar Napló Award
1991 New Hungarian Radio Play Award
1992 Attila József Award
1992 Károly Puskás Award
1993, 1996 Theatre Critics' Award
1993 Ernő Szép Award
1994 Book of the Year Award
1994 Soros Award
1994 Artisjus Award
1994 Kulturfonds Wiepensdorf Grant
1996 Laurel Wreath of the Hungarian Republic
1996 Award of the Kelemen Mikes Kör in the Netherlands (Association for Hungarian Art, Literature and Science in the Netherlands)
1996 Writers Book Store's Marble Award
1996 Drama Critics' Award (Mausoleum)
1996 Laurel Wreath of the Hungarian Republic
1997 Alföld Award
1998 New Hungarian Radio Play Award
1998 Alföld Award
2001, 2002 DAAD Award
2004 Hungarian Literary Award
2003 For Budapest Award
2004 Júlia Szinnyei Memorial Award
2005 Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (civilian) - Officer Cross
2005 Translator's Award of the Federal Chancellor of Austria
2007 Ernő Szép Award
2007 Prima Award
2007 Kossuth Award
2012 János Déri Award

External links

Author's page (HUNLIT – Publishing Hungary)
Author's page (Words Without Borders)
Author's page (BabelMatrix)
Author's page (Honeymood Films)
His entry at a Hungary-related database (DOC)

Works and reviews in English

Poems and short stories at BabelMatrix
The Frozen Dog’s Leg (short story)
Oh, Those Chubby Genes (short story)
- Unusual Incident, another translation of the above short story, with an author's portrait at the bottom (Visegrád Group)
My Hero's Square (excerpts); No Strings Attached (short story); Bagatelle macabre (poems); Smell of hospitals, dawn, tiny nurses' room (review); P. Rose goes airborne (review)
Miklós Györffy: Clichés and Curiosities on The Angel of the Body
Another review of The Angel of the Body