Szilárd Borbély
Szilárd József Borbély | |
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| Born | 1 November 1963 Fehérgyarmat, Hungary |
| Died | 19 February 2014 (aged 51) Debrecen, Hungary |
| Occupation | Academic, writer, poet. |
Szilárd József Borbély (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈsilaːrd ˈborbeːj]); 1 November 1963 – 19 February 2014) was a Hungarian academic, writer and poet.[1][2] The Poetry Foundation identifies him as "one of the most important poets to emerge in post-1989 Hungary", who utilised several writing genres and predominantly dealt with subjects like grief, memory and trauma.[3]
Borbély suffered from "post-traumatic depression", related to the murder of his mother during a burglary in 2000 and the subsequent breakdown and death of his father, who had also been attacked.[4][5][6] Borbély committed suicide on 19 February 2014.[7][8]
Selected bibliography
[edit]Poetry
[edit]- Adatok (1988)
- Berlin-Hamlet (2003). Trans. Ottilie Mulzet (NYRB Poets, 2016)[9]
- Halotti pompa (first edition, 2004; second edition, 2006; third edition, 2014)
- A testhez (2010)
- Final Matters: Selected Poems, 2004-2010, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (Princeton University Press, 2019). Selections from Halotti pompa and A testhez.
- Bukolikatájban (posthumous, 2022). In a Bucolic Land, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (NYRB Poets, 2022)
Prose
[edit]- Nincstelenek: Már elment a Mesijás? (2013). The Dispossessed, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (Harper Perennial, 2016)
- Kafka fia (2021). Kafka's Son, trans. Ottilie Mulzet (Seagull Books, 2023).
References
[edit]- ^ "Szilárd Borbély Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin". Archived from the original on 2014-12-13. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
- ^ Vincze, Dóra (7 May 2022). "Szilárd Borbély: "He was a poet – a great poet – who shatters us."". hlo.hu. Hungarian Literature Online. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "Szilárd Borbély : The Poetry Foundation". www.poetryfoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
- ^ Woo, David (2022-04-14). "Review: In a Bucolic Land". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 2022-04-15. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ^ Szirtes, George (2016-11-25). "Deprivation: A Childhood in 1960s Hungary". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2022-04-15. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ^ "Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2020-03-27. Archived from the original on 2022-01-29. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
- ^ Rakusa, Ilma (25 February 2014). ""Es sei zu Ende"" ["It’s over"]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Szilárd Borbély "Die Mittellosen": Wir gehen und schweigen". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 7 October 2014. Archived from the original on 31 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Foreign Rights - The Dispossessed Novel - Szilárd Borbély". Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
External links
[edit]- Search results for works of Barbély held at British Academic libraries at COPAC
- Diána Vonnák: Tracing Szilárd Borbély's poetry in "The Dispossessed" Asymptote Journal
- Articles at Élet és Irodalom (in Hungarian)
- An Interview with Szilárd Borbély Asymptote Journal
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