Anna T. Szabó

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jezik: madžarščina

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Az önműködő látvány: kavicsok
a tengerparton, mikor az eső
megszínesíti őket, őszi lomb
mozaikja a sötét víz színén,
vagy karmos, száraz platánlevelek
megugró árnyéka az érdes aszfalt
kirajzolódó göröngyei közt
egy kanyarodó autó hirtelen
fénypászmájában —  látok, rögzítek,
exponál a szem, az emlékezet
teszi a dolgát, sodródik a kép,
a rengeteg kép, mint sötét eső-
felhők hullámló búzaföld felett:
üveg mögött fut a busz- vagy vonat-
ablakkeretbe szorított vidék,
a látvány tárlóját a hangtalan
és láthatatlan szél átrendezi,
a felhő alakot vált, módosul
a búzakalászok dőlésszöge,
és pillanatról pillanatra más
képet mutat a száguldó keret:
árnyékmozaik és levélgöröngy,
lombsötét víz, platánfény — a szavak
egymásba csúsznak, a látvány szele
egymásba fújja őket, elrobog
a perc, új képre vált a régi kép,
egymásravetül, szétcsúszik, a szem
fókuszál, exponál, ha lehunyom
egy összevissza mozi kavarog
a sötét hívóvízben, képszavak,
forgószélmúzeum, ahol a volt: van.

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Anna T. Szabó

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* 04.06.1972, Kolozsvár, Rumania, Romunija
živi v: Budapest, Hungary, Madžarska
Poet, writer, translator. She was born in Transylvania (Romania), moved to Hungary in 1987 and studied English and Hungarian literature at the University of Budapest. She received her PhD in English Renaissance literature in 2007. She was 23 when her first volume of poetry appeared, and received the Petőfi Prize (1996), founded for promising young poets. She has since published  six more volumes of poetry published by the distinguished publisher Magvető (including a book of verse for children), and has received several literary prizes (Soros-grant 1997,  Déry-prize 2000, Zsigmond Móricz grant 2001, Attila József prize 2002, Vackor-prize 2003, Kavics-prize 2003, Zoltán Zelk prize 2004, János Arany grant and the prize of the Tokaj writers’ workshop, 2005, Scholarship Holder of the Berlin Academy of Arts, Fiction Prize of the Journal Mozgó Világ, 2006, Mihály Babits translation grant 2006, scholarship holder of the ULNÖ Krems, 2007, The prize of the audience for a play written to the Playwright's Day competition, 2009, National Culture Grant (2013).

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She works as a professional translator, and has translated many poems and lyrics, essays, novels, several books for children, drama, radio plays and librettos (including Sylvia Plath, Yeats, Updike, Shakespeare, Middleton and Beatrix Potter from English, poems by Helwig Brunner from German and a few poems from Romanian; also via literal translations poems from Sweedish and other languages), and writes poems, short stories, essays, newspaper articles and reviews. Her three plays for children have been successfully on stage for several seasons, and regularly takes part in the one-night drama writing competitions, and also in the three popular literary competition series of the Hungarian Television Nyugat (2007),  Szósz (2008- 2009) and Lyukasóra (2011-13).

She also worked for the British Council as a co-leader of a translators’ workshop in Budapest (2000-2004), as the co-editor of the homepage of the Hungarian Book Foundation; as a film critic and translator for the journal CINEMA (1997-2007) ; and the poetry editor of the literary journal The Hungarian Quarterly which publishes Hungarian literature and essays in English (2008-2011). She works as a freelance writer and translator, teaching and lecturing from time to time; she now lives in a small town near Budapest, together with her novelist  husband and two sons.

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