Péter Kántor

Leltár

Language: hungarian

Translations: english (Inventory), polish (Remanent)

Leltár

Két inget hagytál rám:
egy nyárit, meg egy télit,
egy tavaszit, meg egy őszit,
egy kéket, meg egy kéket.

Két inget, meg két könyvet:
az Orpheus nyomábant,
meg a Fűszálakat,
egy Radnótit, egy Whitmant.

Két inget, két könyvet.
Meg egy sálat, meg egy sapkát:
egy kéket, meg egy kéket.

Meg két könyvet.
Meg a Don Giovannit.
Meg egy Bachot, meg egy Vivaldit.

Két inget: két kéket,
egy nyárit, meg egy télit,
egy tavaszit, meg egy őszit.

Péter Kántor

photo © Gábor Valuska

* 05.11.1949, Budapest, Hungary
† 21.07.2021, Hungary

Poet and translator Péter Kántor was born in 1949 in Budapest and still lives there, near the Danube. He earned a degree in Russian and English Literature from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in 1973, and a degree in Hungarian Literature in 1980.

He worked as a teacher in high schools and as a lector for Európa Kiadó (Európa Publisher). During the 80’s he was a prose editor (together with Ottó Orbán) of the literary monthly Kortárs (Contemporary), and between 1997‒2000 a poetry editor of the literary weekly Élet és Irodalom (Life and Literature). Since 2000 he has been a freelance writer. He translates English, American and Russian prose and poetry.

photo © Gábor Valuska

His first volume of poetry Kavics (Pebble) appeared in 1976, then he published another fourteen books of poems and a book of feuilletons with the title Egy kötéltáncos feljegyzéseiből (Notes of a rope-dancer). He has received numerous prizes and awards; in 1991 he spent a year in New York on a Fulbright Fellowship, and in 1999 he got the Soros Lifetime Achievement Award. He has read his poems at poetry festivals throughout the world including Prague, Toronto, Malmö and Jerusalem. A volume of his poems in English, Unknown Places, with translations by Michael Blumenthal was published in New York in 2010. He recently published his poems Valahol itt (Somewhere here) at Magvető Publishing.

He is a member of the Szépírók Társasága (Belletrist Association Society), Digitális Irodalmi Akadémia (DIA, Digital Literary Academy) and Széchenyi Irodalmi és Művészeti Akadémia (Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts).

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