An absolute joy to see this story -- I Want You to Do Something for Me -- which I translated for the excellent Krisztina Tóth now online at @grantamag.bsky.social! If you like it, then do check out our new short story collection White Wolf from @seagullbooks.bsky.social.

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 ‘We’re fine as we are, he said, what do we need kids for? And then time passed and eventually we couldn’t.’  Fiction by Krisztina Tóth, translated from the Hungarian by Owen Good.  granta.com/i-want-you-t...

Very excited—my translation of Other Death by Ferenc Barnás is out today! This was for me a sonorous novel, about an art teacher's rebuilding after mental collapse in '90s postsocialist Budapest. Yet another book on Seagull's superb, ever-expanding Hungarian List, ed. by @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social

Other Death by Ferenc Barnás | Seagull Books

Forthcoming in December 2025 A forty-year-old lecturer’s descent into psychological chaos amidst the turbulent backdrop of 1990s Budapest unfolds through vivid, disorienting imagery and meditations on...

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It has been such a great honour to be one of Krasznahorkai's interpreters into English (since 2008), along with George Szirtes and John Batki. I also have to mention the visionary New Directions and my beyond stellar editor Declan Spring 🧡 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

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If you haven't yet, do explore the massive László Krasznahorkai archive on HLO.hu! I translated this dark-fantastic interview with #Krasznahorkai there in 2021: – Have you ever met a wolf? – Not alive. – Dead? – Dead, yes. – Does that mean a stuffed wolf? – One stuffed, one run over, one killed.

It's open call season at HLO! We're accepting submissions on all things Hungarian: hlo.hu/news/send-us...

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It's open call season again at HLO, and we want to read your writings and translations!

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In March we got the rare chance to sit down with the poet, writer and literary translator George Szirtes in his own home for an interview... We talked about the role of the poet in England and Hungary, translation, and living life at an angle to both languages. And finally, here it is!

George Szirtes: I saw myself as a Budapest tenement block in an English suburb | hlo.hu - Hungarian Literature Online

George Szirtes, T. S. Eliot Prize-winning poet and recipient of the King's Gold Medal for Poetry, is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary English literature and a committed translator of ...

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If you're looking for poetry about Budapest, about post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe—or about illness, dissent, the city as a psychic space—go find a copy of this book.

Gábor Schein: I cannot separate the outside from the inside | hlo.hu - Hungarian Literature Online

We're proud to share an HLO interview with Gábor Schein, author of Beyond the Cordons, a selection of over twenty-five years of his poetry, and translators Ottilie Mulzet and Erika Mihálycsa.

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Exciting interview in the works! Three of us from Hungarian Lit Online made a flying visit to Norwich to conduct a life interview with writer and translator George Szirtes... And here's a sneak-peek, where he talks about his relationship with language and identity, as a Hungarian-born British poet.

George Szirtes: I saw myself as a Budapest tenement block in an English suburb – teaser from a forthcoming interview | hlo.hu - Hungarian...

"When people ask me what I am, as they often do, a “guest” is the answer I've come up with," – says George Szirtes, the British poet and literary translator of Hungarian origin, referring to...

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Woop! We made a huge interview w. Hungarian historical writer Pál Závada. Here he talks Flaubert and Sebald, Esterházy and Nádas, & his latest novel which follows a docu film crew in the politically charged 80s, as they investigate the Kulak show trials of the 50s that resulted in an execution.

Pál Závada: I have to turn to fiction | hlo.hu - Hungarian Literature Online

Hungarian author Pál Závada talks about the literary influences that shaped him — from Sebald and Flaubert to Esterházy and Nádas — the unexpected success of his 1997 debut novel Jadviga párnája (Jadv...

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