Peter Zilahy

Aki el

Language: hungarian
Translations: german (Wenn man hops geht), finnish (Joka pois ), french (Qui loin), serbian (Ko jednom ode), bulgarian (КОЙТО СИ), russian (КТО УШЕЛ), italian (Chi va ), czech (Kdo odešel), esperanto (Kiu for)

Aki el

aki elment többé nincs
többé nem nyom le kilincs
nem szeret nõ nem hal halál
nem rág köröm nem szúr szakáll

hamár elment lelke rajta
nem mer leves nem gyújt gyertya
nem üt vissza nem szül gyerek
nem vár haza nem fõz meleg

meddig tart és miért nem enged
miért szorít belém lehellet
miért tüntet ki értelem
miért szórakoz pont velem

© Peter Zilahy
From: Lepel alatt ugrásra kész szobor (Statue Under A White Sheet Ready To Jump)
Budapest: Pesti Szalon, 1993
Audio production: 2001 M. Mechner, literaturWERKstatt berlin

Peter Zilahy

* 08.11.1970, Budapest, Hungary
lives in: Budapest, Hungary
Péter Zilahy was born in Budapest in 1970. He studied philosophy and cultural anthropology at ELTE University in Budapest.

He was a lecturer at BME University between 1995-98. He was editor in chief of Link Budapest, an Internet magazine for contemporary literature in English and Hungarian between 1997-1999.

He is editor of JAK Books international series since 1998, where among others (Victor Pelevin, Ian McEwan, Arnon Grunberg) he published young German authors (Ingo Schulze, Jenny Erpenbeck, Kathrin Röggla).

He is a many sided author who has often used photography, interactive media and performance art in his works. He was a visiting scholar at New York University in 2001. In 2002 Ludwig Museum in Budapest made an exhibition from his photographs, digital prints and interactive artworks. His volume of poetry,"A Statue Under a White Sheet Ready to Jump", was published by Pesti Szalon in 1993.

His dictionary novel ’The Last Window Giraffe’ was published in 1998 by Abo Ovo and has since been translated into 11 languages. The German translation was made by Terézia Mora. Saarländische Rundfunk and Deutschland Radio has made a radioplay from the book in 2001. A rock band was also named after the book. A multimedia CD-ROM in four languages was developed from his works by C3 Center in Budapest between 1999-2001. The CD-ROM had its first international debut in LiteraturWERKstatt in May 30th 2001. Since then the author has performed with his literary movie in over twenty cities from New York to Athens. More information on his multimedia CD-ROM is at http://azs.c3.hu or azs@c3.hu .

He has a wide range of publications of his poems, prose and essays

in several foreign languages.

www.zilahy.net
Publications

  • Hund, zu Imre Drégely.

    Kurzprosa.

    Übersetzt von Christian Polzin.

    Herausgegeben von der Akademie der Künste Berlin, 1999

  • Die letzte Fenstergiraffe.

    (Auszüge aus dem gleichnamigen Buch).

    Übersetzt von Terézia Mora.

    Die Horen, 44. Jahrgang, Band 3, 1999

  • Die es nicht gibt.

    Übersetzt von Terézia Mora.

    Kafka, Band 4,, 2001

  • Die letzte Fenstergiraffe.

    Radiodrama.

    Übersetzt von Terézia Mora.

    Koproduktion: Saarländischer Rundfunk & DeutschlandRadio, 2001

  • Die letzte Fenstergiraffe.

    Viersprachige Multimedia CD-ROM.

    Übersetzt von Terézia Mora.

    C3 - Center for Culture and Communication, 2001

  • Drei.

    (Buch).

    Übersetzt von Terézia Mora.

    Stuttgart: Edition Solitude, 2003

  • Die letzte Fenstergiraffe.

    (Buch).

    Übersetzt von Terézia Mora.

    Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2003

Links

  • www.zilahy.net

    Peter Zilahy has a wide range of publications of his poems, prose and essays in several foreign languages.

    Website (en)

Remember poem / Add to List

remembered 2 times

Poem already on my list

If you want to remember or list a poem, become a community member.

Login/Register now

Random poem

PUSH!