Poetry on the Road Antwerpen

Poetry on the Road Maastricht

(Budapest, 1949) studied Hungarian, English and Russian language and literature. He then worked as a teacher at high schools and as a lecturer at the Budapest Eötvös Loránd University. He subsequently became editor of the literary magazine Kortárs. He published eight collections of poetry, the latest of which, Metafu«« making its appearance in 1994 and incorporating old and new poems. He also translates, poetry in particular. His own work has been translated in English and Russian, a.o. His poetry earned him many awards in his native country.

In the Netherlands and Flanders his poems got published in anthologies and magazines such as De Tweede Ronde and Raster, and in our linguistic area his poetry is gaining in popularity. He is renowned for his original tone, his expression of irony and the grotesque, his fanciful language with its unexpected and irrestistible twists and turns. His poems read easily, but according to a critic `he mocks our expectations which tend to be guided by logic and the force of habit'. Not many succeed in creating mature poems with such childish innocence and such gallows humour.

He doesn't like one to escape the real burden and trials of life. As he writes in the title poem of the collection Grádicsok (Stairs): `It's all either to much or too little; good god, what's missing?'

He already participated in the 1986 and 1990 Poetry International festivals and in the 1993 Story International Marten Toonder translation project.