My first paying half-legal job was being an interpreter in 1990, working for the border police and customs agents at the Hungarian-Austrian border crossing at Bulcsu, where my family resettled after emigrating to Hungary, to from Transylvania just a year before. There are a few very personal experiences which need to be tackled. Having published three novels and two collections of short stories, I feel it is high time to collect my essays into a volume and while looking at the material I already have in my hand, it becomes clear that the book needs a number of additional pieces to be completed. Since 2022 Dragomán is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts.Īs a translator, György Dragomán has given voice, in Hungarian, to authors such as Irvine Welsh, Micky Donnelly and Samuel Beckett. Some of his past residencies: Akademie Der Künste, Berlin (2006), Ülno Krems (2008), Helsinki Kollegium of Advanced Studies (writer in residence 2014), Wissenschaftskoleg zu Berlin (fellow 2018/19). He has received various literary awards for his writing, such as the Sándor Márai and the Jan Michalski Prize. His plays and novels adapted to the stage have been staged in Stuttgart, Dresden, Budapest, Nyíregyháza, Cluj and Sibiu. His best known works are the novels A fehér király, (Der Weiße König, Suhrkamp 2008) and Máglya (Der Scheiterhaufen, Suhrkamp 2015) and the short story collection Oroszlánkórus (Löwenchor, Suhrkamp 2019).

His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. He studied English and philosophy in Budapest, after graduating, he worked as a translator, film critic, web designer and restaurant critic.ĭragomán has published plays, novels and shorts story collections, as well as a literary cookbook. He was born in Târgu Mureş (Marosvásárhely), in Transylvania, Romania. György Dragomán is a Hungarian author, playwright and literary translator.

A feher kiraly