Péter Kántor
Author

Poemas

A nagymama húngaro

Traduções : en pl

Leltár húngaro

Traduções : en pl

Megtanulni élni húngaro

Traduções : en pl

Megtanulni élni – III. húngaro

Traduções : pl

Szerelmes triptichon húngaro

Traduções : de pl

Kikötő blues húngaro

Eugène Boudin, strandfestő húngaro

Traduções : en

Jég-öröm húngaro

Traduções : en pl

Lucian Freud monológja a magára hagyott testről húngaro

In memoriam Tatárszentgyörgy, 2009 húngaro

Traduções : de en

Mit kell tudnia Istennek? húngaro

Traduções : de en pl

Péter Kántor
Author

About

* 05.11.1949, Budapest, Hungria
† 21.07.2021, Hungria

Poet and translator Péter Kántor was born in 1949 in Budapest and lived 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 was been a freelance writer. He translated English, American and Russian prose and poetry.

His first volume of poetry Kavics (Pebble) appeared in 1976, then he published another sixteen 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. In 2017 he published his poems Valahol itt (Somewhere here) at Magvető Publishing. As greeting his 70th birthday Magvető published an illustrated edition of his poems based on paintings Jég-öröm (Ice-Joy) in 2019. He could just approved last volume of his poems, Elegendő ok (Sufficient Reason) in 2021 Summer.

He was 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).