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Lajos Parti Nagy
Lajos Parti Nagy
Lajos Parti Nagy was born in Szekszárd, Hungary. He qualified as a teacher of literature and history from Pécs University before going on to edit the Pécs-based journal of contemporary, Hungarian literature, Jelenkor (The Present). He has been working as a freelance writer and translator in Budapest since 1986.
He began his literary career as a poet and has been writing prose and drama since the early 1990s. He has written and adapted a number of works for the stage in recent decades as well as his own original pieces, these have included adaptations of works by Caragiale, Hauptmann, Kroetz, McDonagh and Moliere. He lived in Berlin in 2001-2002 on a DAAD scholarship and his works have also proven popular in German-language territories.
Lajos Parti Nagy is considered as having contributed to the reinvention of the Hungarian, literary language and his works always present something new and memorable. His recent works include Hősöm tere (My Hero's Square - published in German in 2000 as Meines Heldenplatz), Grafitnesz (Graffitness - poems, 2003) and A fagyott kutya lába (The Frozen Dog's Leg - short stories, 2006). He has also been presented with the Kossuth Prize and the Hungarian Literary Prize.