Réka Mán-Várhegyi

Réka Mán-Várhegyi (1979) spent her childhood in Târgu Mureș, Romania, she moved to Hungary after the fall of the communist regime in 1990. She has been a Hungarian citizen since 1992. Currently she lives in Budapest, Hungary. Though she studied Aesthetics and Sociology, and specialised in Ethnic and Minority Studies, she has been working as an editor at a children’s book publisher for many years. Her first collection of short stories, Unhappiness at the Aurora Housing Estate (Boldogtalanság az Auróra-telepen, 2014) was hailed as a remarkably mature debut.

Viktor Horvàth

Viktor Horváth was born in 1962 in Pécs. Between 2003 and 2006, he studied for his Ph.D. at the University of Miskolc. Since 2003, he has been teaching the theory of poetic structure and the history of form in medieval and late-medieval times at the University of Pécs. He is a translator of texts in English, German, and Spanish. His guidebook, Through Other New York Variations (Át avagy New York-variációk) was published in 2004.

Noémi Szécsi

Noémi Szécsi (b.1976), writer and translator. She graduated in Finnish and English in Budapest, and studied cultural anthropology in Helsinki. She published her first novel, Finno-Ugrian Vampire in 2002, reprinted in 2003 due to its success. The script based on the novel was shortlisted by the workshop of Sundance Institute. Besides being a historical novel and a saga of a family, Communist Monte Cristo, published in 2006, is an artistic interpretation of the history of a communist idea in Hungary based on elaborate research.

Endre Szkárosi

Endre Szkárosi (b. 1952, Budapest) is a writer, poet and performance artist. As full professor he teaches literature at the University ELTE (Budapest), heading there also a literary doctoral programme. He has been a frequently encountered writer and performer on both the Hungarian and the international art scene as well as a scholar interested in the history and the theoretical background of 20th century experimental poetry and intermedia art. He was and has been editor of important reviews (Mozgó Világ, Új Hölgyfutár, Magyar Műhely/Atelier Hongrois) and editor of a number of anthologies.

Sarolta Deczki 

Sarolta Deczki Ph. D. (1977) is a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for the Humanities in Budapest. Her prefered field of interest and researches is 20th century and contemporary literature. She is the author of three books and a several critiques and essays on contemporary literature.

Jozsef P. Korossi

Jozsef P. Korossi is a poet, writer, and publisher born in 1953. After working at several publishing houses (Móra, Holnap, Pesti Syalon, Palatinus, Noran) for thirty years, he is now the managing director and head of literary editions of the publishing house Noran Libro. He published a number of books and edited several important literary anthologies.

Joelle Dufeuilly

Joelle Dufeuilly has been translating Hungarian literature since 1998. She translated authors such as László Krasznahorkai, György Dragomán, Sándor Jászberényi… She was awarded the SGDL translation prize for Krasznahorkai’s War and her overall work as a translator.

David Szolláth

David Szolláth, Ph. D. (1975) is a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Center for the Humanities in Budapest. He is a managing editor of Literatura, the theoretical journal of the Institute of Literary Studies, HAS, and author of "A kommunista aszketizmus esztétikája" [Aesthetics of Communist Ascetism] (2011). He was an editor at the literary review Kalligram (2006-2008) and Jelenkor (2008-2018).

Hungary

We are happy to introduce the following jury members for Hungary: Endre Szkárosi, writer, poet, performance artist and professor of literature at the University ELTE, President of the jury David Szolláth, research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Research Center for the Humanities) and managing editor of the Literatura journal Joelle Dufeuilly, translator Jozsef P. Korossi, poet, writer, and publisher Sarolta Deczki, author and research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Research Center for the Humanities)  
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