Adam Bodor ( Hungarian. Bodor Ádám , February 22, 1936 , Kolozhvar ) - Hungarian writer.
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| Awards | Kossuth Prize ( 2003 ) [d] ( 1998 ) [d] ( 1996 ) [d] ( 2011 ) [d] ( 2011 ) [d] ( 1989 ) [d] ( 2011 ) [d] ( 2014 ) [d] ( 1992 ) |
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Biography
Born in Transylvania , in the family of a bank employee. Belonged to the Hungarian minority in Romania. He studied at the Reformed school. In 1952 he was charged with crimes against the state (distributed leaflets), spent two years in prison. After the liberation of the year, he worked in a factory. He graduated from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Cluj, but did not become a priest, served in the church archive, and worked as a translator in the first half of the 1960s.
The first story and book of short stories published in 1965 . He became a member of the Writers' Union of Romania. In 1982 he moved to Hungary, settled in Budapest . He worked in a publishing house. He became widely known for his grotesque and fantastic novel "The Zone of Sinistra" ( 1992 ), translated into many languages. A number of works by the writer filmed.
Selected Works
- 1969 A tanú / Witness (short stories)
- 1974 Plusz-mínusz egy nap / Plus or minus one day (story cycle)
- 1978 Megérkezés északra / Nothing happened (short stories)
- 1981 A Zangezur hegység / Zangezur Mountains (short stories)
- 1985 Az Eufrátesz Babilonnál / Euphrates in Babylon (short stories)
- 1991 Sinistra körzet / Sinistra County (chapters from the novel)
- 1994 A részleg / Department (novel, filmed by Peter Gotard , 1995 )
- 1999 Az érsek látogatása / Arrival of the Archbishop (novel, filmed by Zoltan Camondi , 2007 )
Recognition
Prizes of Attila Jozsef ( 1986 ), Tibor Deri ( 1989 , 1992 ), Lajos Kossuth ( 2003 ) and other awards. Bodor's book, Plus or Minus, was filmed by Zoltan Fabri for one day .
Publications in Russian
- Museum of Natural Rarity, Sinistra County // Foreign Literature, 1993, No. 9.
- Sinistra Zone. M .: Languages of Slavic culture, 2004
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
Literature
- Pozsvai Gy. Bodor Ádám. Pozsony: Kalligram, 1998.
Links
- The site contains Hungarian literature (Hungarian) , (English) , (French) , (German)
- On the IMDB website